The first reissue of the Big Blue Marble image of Earth last week was so popular, Wired UK reports, that hits on Flickr surpassed those on the previous high record, the Situation R...

Just as the lunar new year dawns, NASA probes have brought us video of a the mythical far side of the moon, a sight never seen from Earth...

The ancients have known for some time that we are made of stardust, but now a NASA spacecraft has detected the actual atoms from outside the solar system...

What NASA knows as sunspot 1402 spat out an X2-class solar flare on January 27, more powerful than the January 23 one that set the northern lights ablaze as far south as Ireland...

Sunday January 29 and Monday January 30 are the nights to see the moon flirt with Jupiter, our solar system’s largest planet...

Up close she is our dear, beloved, Mother Earth. From space our home planet resembles a shimmering blue glass sphere...

An asteroid the size of a bus cruised past Earth at a distance of about 36,000 miles on Friday January 25 with no incident...

All over the north for the past few days, the recent plasma burst from the sun's coronal mass ejection (CME) has produced some spectacular aurora borealis sightings...

Duck!...

Star Wars planet Tatooine is no fiction: In fact, according to NASA, two-sun planets may be more the norm than Earth's single-star solar system...