NASA's Deep Space Climate Observatory (DSCOVR) satellite is orbiting about a million miles from Earth and capturing stunning imagery of our planet every day. For the second time in a year. it captured the far side of the moon traverse the Earth.
The European Space Agency's e.Deorbit mission is currently working on the technology to facilitate the removal of space debris. They plan on capturing and de-orbiting a large piece of space junk in 2023, making it the first mission of its kind.
Juno captured the photo — which shows Jupiter's famous Great Red Spot and the three big Jovian moons Europa, Ganymede and Io — with its visible-light JunoCam instrument on Sunday (July 10), less than a week after arriving at the giant planet.
A new view of the Orion Nebula, the "deepest and most comprehensive view ever," reveals a preponderance of low-mass, planet-size objects in the famous star-forming region.
As people wandered our office halls, hunting tiny monsters with the newly released augmented-reality game "Pokémon Go," Space.com had only one question: Can astronauts play it in space?
After zooming in on a star being consumed by a supermassive black hole, scientists discovered that a jet emanating from the system is moving much more slowly than expected.
Astronomers using the HAWK-I infrared instrument on on the European Southern Observatory's (ESO) Very Large Telescope (VLT) have peered deeply into the well-known Orion constellation nebula.
Astrophotographer Jim Abels took this image of a comet and the Milky Way from Montauk, New York in April 2016.
The U.S. Navy's newest communications satellite has experienced an undisclosed "anomaly" following its June 24 launch, causing the Navy to suspend the transfer of the satellite to geosynchronous orbit.
Saturn's moon Tethys appears to be hovering over the planet's north pole in this new photo from NASA's Cassini spacecraft. But it's an illusion of perspective: the icy moon actually orbits the planet's equatorial plane.
Long ice ages may make it tough for life to get a foothold on planets near the outer edge of their host stars' "habitable zones," new research suggests.
Using the SPHERE imager om the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope (VLT), astronomers have directly imaged a planet (HD 131399Ab) with three suns.
For the second time in a year, the Deep Space Climate Observatory (DSCOVR) satellite has captured a stunning time-lapse video of the moon crossing the sunlit face of Earth.