The "Blue Marble" was the first photo of the whole Earth and the only ever taken by a human. Fifty years on, new images of ...

Astronomers have detected drifting water clouds in deep space, far from any planet or star. This discovery strengthens the ...

Life may have started long before Earth. Scientists recreated deep-space chemistry and found life’s building blocks could ...

Prebiotic molecules central to life's earliest metabolic processes—chemical reactions in cells that change food into energy—may have been born in deep space long before Earth existed ...

"Without a viewfinder ... the "gorgeous blue seas", white clouds, and black space above. The Earth, she says, appeared as if it had its own glow. "The Sun was at quite a low angle, so it would ...

This week brings the Hubble Space Telescope's 35th birthday – but instead of getting presents, the Hubble team is giving out ...

“In space no one can hear you scream.” If space were truly empty—an utter vacuum, devoid of any matter—then yes, the Alien ...

Best viewed from the Northern Hemisphere, the Lyrid meteor shower is the world's oldest known of its kind and reliably occurs every April.

Even without clouds, the next supermoon is ... it is difficult to spot in the night sky, Space.com reported. Stargazers eager to spot Earth’s lone satellite should wait between 18 and 24 hours ...