The Hera spacecraft successfully launched toward the asteroids Didymos and Dimorphos on Oct. 7, meant to follow up on NASA's ...
The first view below, taken by Hera's Asteroid Framing Camera, shows Earth's dominant white clouds over the sunlit Pacific ...
An unexpected find in tiny crystals hints that the Earth's mantle may not quite behave as has been believed for nearly a ...
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket snapped a pretty special in-space selfie on Monday (Oct. 7). The shot, captured during the launch of ...
The photos of what’s left of the Lake Lure landmark are heart-wrenching, especially to those who have been there.
October's Hunter's Moon appeared at its peak on Thursday night, in what was the closest supermoon to Earth this year. Plenty ...
The passing of comet Tsuchinshan-Atlas is close enough to Earth, an estimated 44 million miles away, to see with the naked ...
New photos of comet Tsuchinshan-ATLAS appear to show a faint "anti-tail" pointing away in the wrong direction. The puzzling ...
ESA's Hera spacecraft captured farewell views of Earth and the moon as it sails away into space to investigate the asteroid ...
Solar flares are flashes of ultraviolet and X-ray radiation released from active areas of the sun's surface, usually sunspots. They are classed by power on a scale of A, B, C, M, and X-class, where X ...
Some Central Texans witnessed a once-in-a-lifetime astronomical event this weekend, as a comet passed over the region and was ...
A powerful geomagnetic storm illuminated auroras that lit the skies over Earth on Thursday (Oct. 9) after X 2 solar flare ...