For more than sixty years, a tiny asteroid has been moving in step with Earth, hidden from view until recently. Astronomers ...

On Aug. 23, 1966, NASA's Lunar Orbiter 1 sent back the first photo of Earth from the moon. It showed a grainy crescent Earth ...

The photobomber is a satellite — specifically, one of SpaceX 's Starlink internet satellites, which Maxar identified as ...

Stargazers can tune in to the Virtual Telescope Project's YouTube stream beginning at 11 p.m. EDT on Sept. 17 (3:00 GMT Sept. 18) to see live views from the organization's robotic telescopes located ...

It wasn’t a glossy colour postcard or a carefully planned shot. Instead, it was a grainy black-and-white image, sent across space in 1966, that completely transformed how humanity saw itself. On ...

SpaceX's Dragon as pictured by an external camera attached to the International Space Station. NASA The International Space Station (ISS) has been in orbit for over 26 years, housing astronauts at an ...

The moon and Venus will shine vividly alongside a bright star in the early morning in a celestial rendezvous that should be visible across the U.S.

An illustration of the paper plane's trajectory as it launches from the ISS. NASA/JAXA/Acta Astronautica Building a spacecraft could one day be as simple as folding a piece of paper into a plane and ...

In modern conflict, power is no longer just projected from aircraft carriers or missile silos – it now comes from constellations in orbit. What was once the preserve of scientific prestige has quietly ...