To see Earth from space is to be forever changed by the view. Since Alan Shepard became the first American to lay eyes on our ...

VAN HORN, Texas – A Rochester man went to space on Wednesday as a member of Blue Origin New Shepard Mission NS-36. Aaron Newman, an entrepreneur, philanthropist and avid explorer from Rochester, spoke ...

Our planet’s magnetosphere has seen dramatic shifts across its history—even total reversals—but this recent wrinkle doesn’t ...

NASA launches TRACERS satellites to reveal how solar energy penetrates Earth's magnetic shield and triggers space storms.

A 2023 astronaut photo shows three dark hills, or mesas, towering above part of the Sahara desert in southern Mauritania. The ...

Reporting from the European Space Agency’s (ESA) Ministerial Council for 2025, held in Bremen last week, IFLScience reveals ...

Using a high-energy X-ray system, they turned the satellite effectively transparent, revealing fuel and gas tanks, hidden ...

The rarest view in humanity -- Earth from afar -- moves many of the lucky few observers to tears and gives them a new appreciation of that blue marble we all call home. For Earth Day this year -- at a ...

The most distant moon since March 2020 takes to the sky today, but you won't be able to see it. The sun's gravity will pull the moon farther away from Earth than it's been in over five years on Nov.