From space, Mecca appears as a city of light and contrast, with winding roads threading through rugged mountains. The radiant Great Mosque of Mecca and the Kaaba stand at its heart, a spiritual beacon ...

RIT associate professor Michael Zemcov is a co-investigator on NASA’s SPHEREx mission, launching in early 2025, which will map the entire sky.

Fluffy strands of cosmic gas and dust illuminated by bright young stars form a beautiful cloudscape in a neighboring nebula.

HH 30 is a luminous region surrounding a newborn star, or protostar. The James Webb Space Telescope helped reveals ...

NASA is now considering March 19 as the new return date for astronauts Sunita Williams and Barry Wilmore, moving up their ...

Indian-origin NASA astronaut Sunita Williams is currently aboard the International Space Station (ISS), where she has been ...

El Niño's cooler flip side, a La Niña, tends to dampen the effects of global warming, making record temperatures far less likely. A La Niña started in January after brewing for months. Just last month ...

The job of space agencies like NASA isn’t only to research scientific topics and to push forward space exploration — it’s also to communicate with the public about that work, and to get them ...

In the past year or so, three internet mysteries popped up that really got my attention. They may seem very different, but trust me, they're connected. The first one is about a girl who found a door ...

NASA astronaut Don Pettit shared a mesmerizing photograph of the Burj Khalifa, the world's tallest building, taken from the International Space Station. Pettit's remarkable space photography ...

NASA's SPHEREx mission is set to launch in late February 2025, a landmark moment in space exploration. SPHEREx is the acronym for Spectro-Photometer for the History of the Universe, Epoch of ...