The annual competition for professional and amateur astrophotographers released its shortlisted images, which capture the ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — The International Space Station’s first visitors from India, Poland and Hungary headed back to ...

The world's most powerful telescopes, including the James Webb Space Telescope and FAST, are revolutionizing our ...

Sometimes, in order to support an idea, you first have to discredit alternative, competing ideas that could take resources ...

Mariner 4, built by JPL in Pasadena, took the images on July 14, 1965. One of the mission's leaders reflects on decades of ...

After its voyage past Mars, Mariner 4 maintained intermittent communication with JPL and returned data about the interplanetary environment for two more years. But by the end of 1967, the spacecraft ...

Sixty years ago today, NASA’s Mariner 4 spacecraft took the first up-close images of Mars, changing humanity's understanding ...

Earth has rarely looked as remarkable as it does in this stunning shot (above) captured by NASA astronaut Don Pettit from the International Space Station (ISS).

Researchers suspect that two meteorites found in the Sahara Desert in 2023 may originally have come from Mercury, which would ...

The Voyager spacecraft, Voyager 1 and 2, have traveled farther than any human-made objects in history, entering interstellar ...

Astronomers have discovered a massive exoplanet, potentially ten times the size of Jupiter, hidden within the protoplanetary disk of young star MP Mus.