The massive sunspot region that gave Earthlings stunning auroral displays earlier in May is back from its trip around the far ...

Normal lenses rely on their curved shape to achieve this effect, but physicists from the University of Amsterdam and Stanford ...

A team of researchers has found that certain minerals with characteristic shapes could indicate the activity of bacteria on ...

Important nutrients for the first living organisms on Earth may have come from space, according to new research from the ...

The monster sunspot responsible for May's vibrant auroras will soon be facing Earth again. Here's when to be alert for the ...

"Even though our planet is a sphere, it is not a perfect sphere," according to NASA. "Because of the force caused when Earth rotates, the North and South Poles are slightly flat. Earth’s rotation, ...

SpaceX Falcon 9 launched the EarthCARE satellite, which will study clouds and aerosols in the Earth's atmosphere, into orbit ...

A Falcon 9 rocket from SpaceX lifted off with the Earth Cloud Aerosol and Radiation Explorer satellite, or EarthCARE for ...

The planet Neptune has a large dark spot "with an unexpected smaller bright spot adjacent to it," inveru observations using ...

Synthetic aperture radar (SAR) allows satellites to bounce radar signals off the ground and interpret the echo – and it can ...

The incoming comet Tsuchinshan–ATLAS might become as brilliant as Venus during its close approach to Earth this fall, ...