A NASA Mars rover looked up at a moody sky. What it saw wasn't a star.

Perseverance captures a rare sight from the surface of the Red Planet. In the hours just before dawn, NASA‘s Perseverance…

Private lunar spacecraft sends home breathtaking moon snapshot

The company is weeks away from a landing attempt. A Japanese commercial spacecraft is zeroing in on its second attempt…

NASA just performed a 'miracle save' for its farthest spacecraft

Voyager 1 keeps on trucking. NASA engineers have brought a set of obsolete thrusters back from the dead on the…

Webb discovers a distant moon has an intriguing similarity to Earth

Why scientists are thrilled by what they saw on Titan. Scientists have had a hunch that a distant moon experiences…

NASA rover captures an aurora from Mars surface for the first time

Perseverance looked up at the right moment for a light show. NASA‘s Perseverance rover has captured an aurora in the…

Watch how an old Venus spacecraft tumbled before crashing to Earth

A German radar station likely got the last look. Before a Soviet-era spacecraft intended for Venus crashed back to Earth…

Stunning video reveals Jupiter's roiling auroras. See it now.

Scientists are puzzled by its dazzling afterglow. Astronomers have zoomed in on Jupiter‘s poles to get a better look at…

Hubble spots a roaming black hole light-years from where it belongs

A space vortex plays hide-and-seek with sky surveys. A black hole skulking in the shadows 600 million light-years away in…

NASA astronauts are proud bedwetters. They even practice.

You ain't cool unless you pee your space pants. Before NASA shot astronaut Scott Kelly into orbit for the first…

Soviets were headed to Venus in 1972. The spacecraft is about to return.

The final chapter for Kosmos 482. A Cold War-era spacecraft is heading home after a half-century adrift. Back in the…