Our planet is constantly changing, but satellite images reveal just how quickly those changes can happen. From the disappearance of the Aral Sea and the dramatic retreat of Alaska’s Muir Glacier to ...

The stunning sight of two famous exhibits now on show together in the North East for the first time is attracting hordes of ...

A former NASA astronaut has explained why humanity is 'living a lie' after living in space for nearly six months.

A storm from the Sun can make a planet’s sky glow or a spacecraft’s computer stumble. At Mars in May 2024, it did both, just without the auroras people photographed on Earth.

Astronomers produced the most complete map of the center of the Milky Way, which can provide insight into how stars and planets are formed.

The pace of global warming has nearly doubled since 2015, a new study published today in Geophysical Research Letters has ...

Two European Space Agency Mars-orbiting missions, the Mars Express and ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter spacecraft, watched as a powerful solar "superstorm" that ravaged Earth also struck the Red Planet. The ...

Finding Earth-like planets orbiting sun-like stars and identifying signs of life such as oxygen or water is a major goal in ...

For decades, scientists have debated whether Mars once had a large ocean. Images from orbiters have shown valleys, channels ...

Iran has launched a handful of its own surveillance satellites, but none have the sophistication and sharp vision of US, ...

New images of Uranus show the planet in blue, the upper atmosphere in red, auroras in lighter red spots and rings in white. ESA / Webb, NASA, CSA, STScI, P. Tiranti, H. Melin, M. Zamani (ESA / Webb) ...

Newly released Mars images offer a detailed look at one of the Red Planet's oldest, most heavily cratered regions, a landscape shaped by billions of years of impacts, volcanism and erosion.