For an hour, HERA flew as close as 5,600 kilometers from the Martian surface, at a speed of 33,480 kilometers an hour. It used the opportunity to test some of its scientific instruments, snapping ...

On the way to investigate the scene of a historic asteroid collision, a European spacecraft swung by Mars and captured rare ...

F or the first time since 2022, skygazers Thursday-into-Friday were treated with a total lunar eclipse, which turned the moon into a visible glowing red orb, often called a "Blood ...

In a groundbreaking feat, photographer Josh Dury, 27, also known as the "Starman", is believed to have captured the first-ever image of all seven planets, plus Earth, in a single frame.

A 2022 astronaut image captures a rare ... one of the planet’s most perilous volcanoes, bursting forth out of an unusual hole in the clouds. A stunning composite picture, taken from three ...

Surprisingly enough, the moon is a piece of our planet. The moon is weird ... potassium (K), rare-Earth elements (REE) and phosphorus (P). These elements don't usually like to hang out together ...

On the way to investigate the scene of a historic asteroid collision, a European spacecraft swung by Mars and captured rare images of the red planet ... is 11mn km from Earth in the asteroid ...

It's a rare treat to see so many astronomical ... Paranal Observatory. In new photos of this planet parade, the wispy glow of our own Milky Way galaxy is accompanied by Saturn, Neptune, Venus ...

With Earth's shadow cast over it, the moon appears to us to be dimmer and more reddish than usual, which is what lends it the nickname "blood moon." More news about our planet: Sign up for USA ...

Planetary alignments occur when multiple planets gather closely on one side of the Sun, appearing in a near-straight line from ... Getty Images This planetary alignment provides a rare chance ...

And if you thought witnessing a total lunar eclipse from Earth was a rare treat, that's nothing ... Firefly Aerospace then released two images captured by its lander with a wide-lens camera ...