While aboard the International Space Station, NASA astronauts Anne McClain and Nichole Ayers fly around the world every 90 ...

The moon spent a few million years as a volcanic wasteland, covered with ongoing eruptions that spewed from mountains and ...

JWST uncovers unexpected behavior in polar lights on Jupiter, while a Mars rover captures the first image of an aurora.

On May 12, weather-station equipment on NASA's Curiosity rover (pictured 2021) recorded a high temperature of 11 degrees ...

We've even been asked if you could run solar cells during the long lunar night on reflected earthlight, so we decided to ...

The science team behind Perseverance wanted to know whether that glow from the Mars aurora could be seen in the visible ...

Half a century after the Apollo astronauts left the last bootprints in lunar dust, the moon has once again become a ...

NASA’s learned a lot about the Moon since Apollo. But a perfect landing still requires incredible planning and scientific ...

These images feature zodiacal light — the faint, diffuse glow created by sunlight scattering off dust particles in orbit.

SYRACUSE, N.Y. — Did you know that there are different types of full moons? They come in different sizes, brightness, and ...

America's first space station, Skylab, helped pave the way for permanent operations in low-Earth orbit 52 years ago this year.

Every year, the moon moves just a little farther away from our planet. Scientists have calculated the rate at which our ...