The 7 coolest space phenomena we saw from Earth in 2024. Eclipses, aurorae, and more lit up the skies. By Tom Hawking. ... Happily, 2024 was a banner year for stargazers, ...

Astrophysicist Claims The 'Kármán Line' Separating Earth and Space Moved — Now, It's 12 Miles Closer to Our Planet. Ever since the dawn of the Space Age, humans have been obsessed with ...

This photo shows Earth, our home planet, and was taken from the International Space Station as it flew more than 261 miles up. The space station has been home rotating crews of astronauts since ...

Longtime NASA astronaut Don Pettit, who has ventured to space four times, returned to Earth on Saturday night from the International Space Station. Pettit, who turned 70 on Sunday, landed at 9:20 ...

Unlike proposals to build solar power stations in space and transmit energy down to earth, all the generation would still happen down here. Crucially, these reflectors could help solar farms ...

NASA astronauts Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore were on the International Space Station more than nine months, despite launching into space in June for what was expected to be an eight-day mission.

Letters to the Editor: The government might want to prioritize Earth over investing in space-related pursuits. Storm clouds hang over the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena.

Lightning can be used to probe Earth’s dynamic Van Allen radiation belts, directly connecting terrestrial weather and space weather. Lightning strikes link weather on Earth and weather in space Home ...

One calculation from the federally-funded Virginia-based Aerospace Corp., which tracks space debris, predicts the probe reentering Earth's atmosphere at 1:54 a.m. ET Saturday, May 10.