Mark Boslough is a Research Associate Professor in the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences ... scenarios and ancient apocalypses aside. The real question, and still an open one, is whether ...

There are aliens in the universe, according to one astronaut. But humanity has one massive stumbling block when it comes to ...

A stunning compilation of views of Earth from the Tiangong space station. Credit: Space.com | footage courtesy: China Central ...

Space can be a wondrous place, and we've got the pictures to prove it ... beautiful aurora are increasingly smeared across the Earth's skies, and while the hypnotic swirls of greens and reds ...

NASA's Juno spacecraft has sent back new, eye-catching images of Jupiter, capturing intricate views of the planet's turbulent ...

In a conversation about her Booker Prize-winning novel 'Orbital,' author Samantha Harvey delved into the process of depicting ...

The same can’t be said of “space ... near-real-time monitoring of this increasingly important phenomenon. Space weather is a general term for the radiation in the near-Earth environment ...

The small amount of time between detection and impact means impact monitoring systems, operated by the European Space Agency's Near-Earth Object ... survey obtained images that included detections ...

As she grew older she would look at images of the Earth from space, including those taken by a live camera in the International Space Station (ISS), which is roughly the size of a football field.

Geologists have uncovered strong evidence from Colorado that massive glaciers covered Earth down to the equator hundreds of millions of years ago, transforming the planet into an icicle floating in ...

On Wednesday, a new slate of witnesses provided fresh testimony to Congress on UFO sightings and what the government may (or ...

Astronauts on the Apollo missions of the 1960s and '70s collected rocks, took photos ... space telescopes, make it easier to live on Mars, and solve long-standing scientific mysteries about Earth ...