Happy New Year's on Mars. Martian years are almost twice as long as Earth years. Nov. 12 is the day to celebrate the start of ...

Scientists have calculated the Earth to be 4.54 billion years old, with an uncertainty of 50 million years on either side.

Ever since the ancient Greeks first made observations of the circular Moon and the skies, scientists have known that the ...

Magnetospheres serve as protective bubbles around planets (including Earth) with magnetic cores and magnetic fields ... JPL's ...

Juno also snapped pictures of Jupiter's potato-shaped inner moon, named Amalthea. With a radius of only 52 miles (84 ...

An image released from the European Space Agency (ESA) shows a rare perspective of Earth 180 million miles away on Mars.

Earth's city lights streak by in this long-exposure photo taken by NASA astronaut Don Pettit on Oct. 24, 2024. The green glow ...

Get an astronaut’s view of auroras, stars, and the Milky Way surrounding our beautiful planet. 12,500 images taken by ...

In an image snapped by the OLI (Operational Land Imager) on Landsat 8, Mexico's most active volcano Popocatépetl can be seen ...

They propose that asteroids which already travel relatively close by Earth, Mars and even Venus already could be used to hop between the planets. They are already making the journey anyway and so ...

Astronomers have discovered a distant white dwarf with an Earth-like planet in an orbit just beyond where Mars is in our solar system. Earth could end up in such an orbit circling a white dwarf in ...

It sounds like something out of a science-fiction movie. For the past couple of weeks, Earth's orbit has been home to a "mini-moon" the size of a city bus. The celestial object is more than just a ...