A spacecraft has beamed back some of the best close-up photos yet of Mercury's north pole. The European and Japanese robotic ...

The vintage NASA photos include Earthrise, which was captured by the crew of Apollo 8 as they orbited the Moon.

A large metallic ring from space crash-landed in Kenya on New Year's Day. Officials want to determine its origins and hold ...

Here’s how it works. Space can be a wondrous place, and we've got the pictures to prove it! Take a look at our favorite space pictures here, and if you're wondering what happened to today in ...

The ESA/JAXA's BepiColombo spacecraft flew by Mercury yesterday for the sixth time, just 183 miles above the planet's north ...

The photos, shared on the mission's website ... For the first time since the Apollo missions in the 1960s and 70s, the U.S. space agency is planning to send astronauts back to the moon.

Every year, the International Space Station (ISS) delivers some of the most breathtaking and unique photography of Earth.

The close-up images reveal craters, the floors of which are in permanent shadow, and vast sunlit northern plains.

From solar storms to "shooting stars" over Stonehenge, here are our top 10 favorite space photos of 2024 — and what they told us about our beautiful cosmos. You didn't need a telescope to ...

Pictures from the International Space Station do not disappoint, from comets and northern lights to giant hurricanes and ...

Scores of people gathered at Seattle's Space Needle to bring in the new year by watching a dazzling display of fireworks.