Winter solstice is the shortest day of year, longest night of the year and the official first day of winter in the Northern ...

Space can be a wondrous place ... Pictured here, a Day-Night Band image from NOAA's JPSS Program satellites, showing Earth's northern hemisphere from above, crowned in a ring of aurora borealis.

While millions of people on Earth enjoy Thanksgiving, the astronauts currently crewing the International Space Station (ISS) are having a "turkey day" all of their own. The ISS's current NASA ...

For the Apollo 8 astronauts, no message was more fitting to read to the estimated billion people listening than the ...

The winter solstice is more than just an astronomical event. It symbolizes the cyclical nature of time, marking the end of ...

While it's often believed that the winter solstice is a whole day event, the solstice actually lasts just a moment.

Sentinel-1C, launched via the Vega-C rocket, enhances Europe's capacity for high-resolution Earth monitoring and introduces maritime traffic detection technologies. This launch is a pivotal moment for ...

SpaceX plans to launch 23 Starlink communications satellites into low-Earth orbit from Vandenberg Space Force Base in ...

Every month on Earth Matters ... your answer for at least a day to give less experienced readers a chance. Releasing comments. Savvy readers have solved some puzzlers after a few minutes. To give more ...

SpaceX had two Space Coast launches booked for the weekend, but may have to wait a while for a retry after scrubbing the first launch attempt on Friday night ... for that day at neighboring ...

December’s full moon, dubbed the cold moon, will reach the crest of its full phase early Sunday. Here’s the best way to view ...

The world’s first wooden satellite has been deployed to Earth orbit from the International Space Station (ISS). The ISS Research X account posted footage of a trio of CubeSats, including Japan ...