Astronaut Shubhanshu Shukla shares a stunning space photo of India's glowing Diwali lights, showcasing the festival’s beauty ...

Astronaut Shubhanshu Shukla marked Diwali with a viral throwback video from his space mission, showing India lit up like a ...

Starfront Observatories allows amateur astronomers to rent a spot for their telescopes and photograph the cosmos over a ...

No one can say with scientific confidence why we exist or what happens when we die. In fact, scientists have a tenuous grasp on what it even means to be conscious. But our purely human urge to ask the ...

Launched as part of a mission to study the outer planets, Voyager 1 has now traversed a distance so vast that light itself—the fastest thing in the universe—would take 24 hours to cover it. The ...

This September, the US launched three new missions into space, all of which are designed to monitor the impacts of space weather. Space weather arises from solar flares and coronal mass ejections.

A strong geomagnetic storm produced dazzling Northern Lights before sunrise Tuesday in the Northern Tier and lit up the sky in neon green in Alaska. NOAA's Space Weather Prediction Center (SWPC) said ...

New ways to measure thawing permafrost could help us understand its potential impacts on infrastructure, military outposts, and communities. Something is rotten in the city of Nunapitchuk. In recent ...

There’s a massive, ghostly halo around Earth. You can’t see it. Most people have never heard of it. But it’s there – a loose blanket of hydrogen atoms that stretches far out into space. It starts ...

The Omega Speedmaster is by far the watch most associated with outer space, and it remains the only watch authorized by NASA for use during extravehicular activity (AKA space walks). But dozens of ...

Space is dirty. Filthy. It's littered with asteroids, and rocks, and dust. Some of that material falls to the earth. When it enters the atmosphere, we call it a meteor. If it lands, it's a meteorite.