Three astronauts who had been stranded at China's space station are heading home on the craft that brought up their ...

From Earth, auroras — also known as the northern or southern lights according to the hemisphere in which they occur — appear as colorful lights dancing in the sky near the poles. Astronauts on the ...

Three astronauts returned to Earth on Friday after being stranded due to a rare space debris incident. The Chinese crew was ...

Three Chinese astronauts have returned to Earth after they were briefly stranded at the nation's space station when space ...

Earth has picked up a new traveling companion – an asteroid named 2025 PN7 that now moves through space in step with us. This ...

The powerful coronal mass ejection would have likely destroyed the atmospheres of any potentially habitable planets nearby ...

Earth from space A 2023 astronaut photo captured a rare effect, known as sunglint, transforming the surface of one of Russia's deepest lakes into a sea of swirling clouds. The crater lake is ...

Earth from space A recent landslide along the banks of a river in British Columbia completely dammed the waterway, leading to evacuation warnings and potentially dooming an endangered fish population ...

We’ve mastered launching satellites, but it’s the way these satellites connect to Earth—and to each other—that will determine ...

A Falcon 9 rocket topped with an ocean-observing satellite launched into space Sunday night from California's central coast.