On the morning of May 5, 1961, astronaut Alan Shepard crawled into the cramped Mercury capsule, "Freedom 7," at Launch ...

Though astronomers have known about the threat posed by near-Earth objects since the 1970s, efforts to catalogue potentially ...

A beautiful but skewed spiral galaxy dazzles in this NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image. The galaxy, called Arp 184 or NGC ...

Pointed away from Earth about 404 miles overhead, the orbital observatory will circle the planet from north to south about 14 ...

A new NASA video of the Earth's sun has sparked a number of conspiracy theories with some claiming the footage shows a 'UFO' ...

An astronaut who missed out on the first all-female spacewalk because of a spacesuit sizing issue got her chance six years ...

A U.S. spacecraft beamed hundreds of photos of Mercury back to Earth on Tuesday after a close encounter with the planet closest to the sun. The images show scientists never-before-seen landscapes on ...

From breathtaking snapshots of distant galaxies to game-changing discoveries about the universe’s expansion, the Hubble Space ...

NASA says the change is part of the agency's "continued effort to enable a robust commercial industry and supports policy ...

"It's like trying to spot a fish by looking for ripples in a pond, rather than trying to see the fish itself." ...

NASA’s Dragonfly has passed its critical design review. The flying robot will explore Saturn’s moon Titan for signs of life ...

The mystery of where the precious metal gold came from in the Universe may finally have been solved as Nasa finally has some ...