A NASA spacecraft bound for an unusual metallic asteroid recently made a strategic flyby of Mars — and its cameras captured a rare perspective of the red planet along the way. The Psyche mission, ...

The Psyche mission is en route to its namesake asteroid, and on the way, it flew by Mars and saw the Red Planet in a completely new light. The crescent seen in this photo is Mars. The probe also ...

The Psyche mission, on its way to study an asteroid of the same name, approached within 2,864 miles of the red planet on May ...

NASA’s Psyche spacecraft used Mars’ gravity to gain speed on its journey toward a strange metal-rich asteroid deep in the ...

Voyager 1 is on a journey that will outlast civilizations, outlive the Sun’s familiar neighborhood, and eventually drift into ...

Distance from Earth (logarithmic scale) - Moon 1 mi 10 mi 100 mi 1,000 mi 10,000 mi 100,000 mi Moon 1M mi 10M mi 100M mi 1B ...

You won’t be constantly adjusting your position to peek around trees or buildings, which is the stargazing equivalent of ...

North America’s celestial highlights for the weekend ahead, which also apply to mid-northern latitudes in the northern ...

Discovery led by UC Santa Cruz Ph.D. of daily cloud cycle on a hot Jupiter exoplanet provides unique window into its make-up ...

Astronomers using NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope have uncovered a rare world unlike anything in our solar system — a giant planet about the size of Saturn with surprisingly Earth-like temperatures ...

Polar bears aren't white, strawberries aren't berries and the Earth isn't round—we'll have you rethinking everything you ...