The mission aims to collect samples from the near-Earth asteroid 2016 HO3 and explore the main-belt comet 311P.

An astronaut aboard the International Space Station has shared a striking photo of what is known as a Transient Luminous ...

The images that astronauts take from on the ISS aren't only for enjoyment though. They can also be an important tool for scientific research.NASA has a program called Crew Earth Observations (CEO ...

From their unique vantage point in orbit, astronauts have a clear, unobstructed view of these fleeting events—something ...

China's Tianwen-2 probe continues on its journey to rendezvous with a near-Earth asteroid (NEA) before heading to the main ...

China's Tianwen-2 probe has commenced its decade-long deep space mission, capturing a stunning image of Earth and the Moon ...

NASA spacecraft have captured a number of distant images of Earth, including a famous shot from billions of miles away. Here's our humble planet seen from deep space.

It’s the iconic “Earthrise” photo. Of course, this isn’t one of 2022’s images of Earth from space that I’m showcasing below. But I thought I should start with it — for context.

Earth from space A 2012 Google Earth photo captured a hill formation in Sudan that bears a striking resemblance to human lips. Not much is known about the unusual landmark, but researchers have ...

The umbrella-shaped antenna, built by US space firm L3Harris, catches the returning signals and redirects them to the ...

By looking at the shifting of stars in photos from the New Horizons probe, astronomers have calculated its position in the ...