This 2013 astronaut photo shows a giant eye-shaped impact crater in the Sahara Desert that is slowly being circled by ...

Garneau would be part of three off-world missions in his career as an astronaut before eventually touching down in the House ...

Gazing out the window of a rocket at Earth’s glistening blue perimeter, Emily Calandrelli’s mind was likely far from away ...

A new study reveals that the asteroid 2024 PT5, which has been orbiting Earth for 2 months, may have a "lunar origin." ...

If the United States and the former Soviet Union could cooperate on space efforts during the Cold War, then tensions between nations on Earth today don’t have to extend to diplomacy and agreements ...

This year’s Booker prize winner, Samantha Harvey’s ‘Orbital’ is no ordinary page-turner. It turns our gaze to the planet from ...

Miles of air cover Earth. The boundary between Earth's atmosphere and outer space, the Kármán line, is about 62 miles (100 ...

On Earth, the magnetic field of our planet points a compass north, but in space, things are a bit more complicated.

Outer space, once considered boundless and untouched, faces the threat of pollution resulting from our expanding presence beyond Earth. While the u ...

Earth's orbit is getting crowded with junk. And that's becoming a major problem. Starting with Sputnik I in 1957, humanity ...