Space exploration pushed the boundaries of human knowledge as it enriched human knowledge about the unknown that lay beyond. Every mission aimed to succeed at this was the result of years of ...

When NASA's Juno spacecraft first flew by ... Gaze in awe at this moody, first image of Jupiter's swirling north pole: "[I]t looks like nothing we have seen or imagined before," Scott Bolton ...

NASA's James Webb Space ... The newly enhanced image shows details of the planet's seasonal "cloud cap" that swirls over its north pole. Scientists said the polar cap becomes "more prominent ...

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The vortex appears to be part of a huge filament of solar plasma that the space agency says broke away from the Sun’s surface and is now circling the north pole like a tornado. Unfortunately ...

Photographer Mario Tama didn’t think he would see much in the way of great scenery when he flew with NASA ... miles north of the Arctic Circle and about 950 miles south of the North Pole.

NASA astronaut Don Pettit captured this stunning long-exposure view of Earth and stars from space at night from the ...

The postponement, driven primarily by thick clouds, was the second scrub of the flight since an issue with the rocket on ...