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Astronaut Nichole Ayers recently witnessed a phenomenon known as a sprite from the International Space Station.
A NASA astronaut captured a fascinating weather phenomenon that still has scientists scratching their heads. Nichole Ayers is ...
NASA’s uncrewed Orion spacecraft has sent back its first images of Earth as it heads toward a rendezvous with the moon as part of the Artemis I mission.
From the first photo of the Earth from space to the farthest image taken 3.7 billion miles away, see what our planet looks like from afar.
A groundbreaking X-ray imager is on its way to revolutionize our understanding of Earth's magnetic defenses. This ...
NASA has released the clearest images ever compiled of Earth’s magnetosphere radiation belt. But the spacecraft that accomplished the feat wasn’t only designed to detail the vital atmospheric ...
Images that NASA's DART spacecraft captured of an asteroid moments before it intentionally collided with the object in 2022 have now allowed researchers to gain fresh insights into the celestial ...
NASA is sending an exciting mission to the Moon on board a commercial lander, Firefly Aerospace’s Blue Ghost Mission 1. The lander is carrying ten scientific instruments, most of them to study ...
The Blue Ghost captured other first-of-its-kind images throughout its mission, including high-definition footage of a landing on the moon and images of the lunar eclipse on March 14.
Other images show the vivid colors of nebulae, like the crimson red of the Cat's Paw Nebula, which lies 4,370 light-years from Earth, and the bright purple of the Crab Nebula within the Taurus ...
NASA deems any space object that comes within 4.65 million miles (7.5 million km) of our planet as "potentially hazardous," even if they pose no immediate threat to Earth.