The first photograph of our planet taken from outer space dates back to 1946 when the Americans used a captured German V2 rocket from World War II. At the end of the Second World War, the United ...

Astronauts witnessed the brightest comet of 2025 from space as it streaked across the sky above Earth. A new photo taken from the vantage point of the International Space Station (ISS) captures ...

NASA was formed in 1958 "to provide for research into problems of flight within and outside the Earth's atmosphere, and for ...

NASA's exploration robots have rumbled around Mars, swooped around Saturn, and flown well beyond the planets, into interstellar space. But the space agency's engineers often direct their machines ...

Pettit is now in the midst of his third stint on the International Space ... to Earth next spring. Putting all of this together, I think Pettit's streaky image may be the best picture ever taken ...

New photos of comet C/2024 G3 (ATLAS) suggest that it could be disintegrating due to "thermal stress" from its recent ...

Here are the US's biggest moments in space this year and the missions that taught us outer space is a formidable ... Peregrine lunar lander burned up in Earth's atmosphere. The same day, NASA's ...

Mashable Light Speed Want more out-of-this world tech, space and science stories? Sign up for Mashable's weekly Light Speed newsletter. NASA astronaut Don Pettit shares a photo of Comet ATLAS that ...

The photos, taken on Friday, show the hills of Los Angeles County lit up from outer space. Since Tuesday, multiple wildfires in Southern California have burned through at least 39,000 acres — an ...

The European Space Agency’s Solar Orbiter spacecraft ... this image of the sun's corona — its outer and hottest atmosphere — was taken in the extreme ultraviolet region of the ...