NASA’s Cassini spacecraft, which orbited Saturn from 2004 to 2017, took many dramatic images of the rings’ shadows on Saturn.

"Our Sun (Sol) is marked by a black hexagon, and its orbital path is indicated by a grey solid line (top row only). Alpha Centauri's location and path are shown by a yellow star and a solid blue line ...

Galileo precedes today’s physicists by many generations, but his work underscores the interplay of intellect and observation ...

New simulations reveal that around 1 million "macroscopic" objects from our closest stellar neighbors, the Alpha Centauri ...

On this day 35 years ago, NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft took a picture that changed how we see our planet. The iconic "Pale ...

"Pale Blue Dot" – one of the last photos taken by Voyager 1 – is still the most distant image of the Earth. Astronomer Carl ...

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“New Horizons shattered a major paradigm of planetary science,” says Alan Stern, the mission’s principal investigator. “Pluto ...

On Valentine's Day 1990, NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft snapped what would become one of the most iconic images ever taken: a view of Earth from 3.7 billion miles (6 billion kilometers) away.

Lunar: A history of the moon in myths, maps and matter tells the story of the coexistence between humanity and the celestial ...

Space can be a wondrous place, and we've got the pictures to prove it ... They say opposites attract, and NASA thinks so too. NASA's Earth Observatory website posted this lovely pair today ...

That's because this space rock, designated asteroid 2024 YR4, has a 1-in-48 chance of impacting Earth in 2032 ... of the asteroid to obtain these images," Bolin explained. "The observations ...