A meteor explosion has been captured from space for the first time ever, thanks to a team aboard the International Space ...

A 2016 astronaut photo of the Bahamas shows a series of luminous, rippling sandbanks partly carved out by a coral reef. The ...

Click play, go full-screen, lean back and enjoy. That's how easy it is now to get lost in the absolutely stunning scape that is our planet Earth from space as it streams live before your eyes. Sen, a ...

An asteroid about the length of three football fields is due to pass closely – but safely – by Earth in a matter of hours. Talk of asteroids coming too close for comfort to Earth may remind people of ...

A new paper posits that advanced alien civilizations may communicate through subtle flashes, like fireflies do on Earth. The ...

Space technology on Earth has gone from futuristic to foundational in our everyday lives. From satellite innovations that enable global communication to space science applications improving ...

The idea of making a home in space is rapidly shifting from possibility to reality. That vision is at the heart of this year's World Space Week (WSW), celebrated annually from Oct. 4 to Oct. 10, with ...

Rogue planets — worlds that drift through space alone without a star — largely remain a mystery to scientists. Now, ...

Jeff Bezos has already sent people to space in his Blue Origin rockets, now he’s working out a way they could live there. The Amazon founder is dead set on making his ultimate science fiction dreams ...

In a new book, NASA astrobiologist Caleb Scharf says the fate of life on Earth may hinge on leaving our planet behind The multibillion-year story of life on Earth is defined by a handful of epochal ...

At 950 feet in diameter, the asteroid is about the size of a typical stadium, or three football fields. The Virtual Telescope Project plans to stream the event live on YouTube. An asteroid about the ...