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 ...

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

DART's goal was to examine how well a planetary defense strategy in moving a threatening space rock away from Earth. Hera will examine the collision from a nearby vantage point, providing a different ...

An astronaut’s photo from the International Space Station captures crepuscular rays and cumulonimbus clouds, revealing a ...

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 ...

On October 24, 1946, a V-2 rocket captured the first-ever photo of Earth from space. ‘On This Day in Space’ Video Series on Space.com While these grainy, black-and-white images might not look ...

A father-daughter duo has decoded an alien-like signal beamed from a spacecraft in 2023. Now, citizen scientists are trying ...

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.

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 ...