Elizabeth Howell

Kepler's sun drawings are the oldest sunspot records with known dates.

The cameras aboard the International Space Station may be ready, but it's still not clear where to point them in order to capture the April 8 total solar eclipse.

Last week, the Martian moon Phobos passed neatly between Mars and the sun. NASA's Perseverance rover caught the fortuitous eclipse on camera.

NASA's Curiosity rover spotted a rock formation on Mars that looks just like Star Trek's signature Starfleet symbol.

Engineers intentionally blew up a full-scale prototype of an inflatable space module that could be used in future missions. Watch the big bang unfold here.

Astronaut Frank Rubio is officially off the hook in the case of the disappearing space tomatoes, now that ISS astronauts have finally found the bag of produce that went missing 8 months ago.

NASA astronaut Frank Rubio spent hours looking for a tomato that floated away on the International Space Station. Eight months later, his colleagues finally found it.

Liftoff of SpaceX's enormous Starship is currently scheduled for Nov. 18, during a 20-minute window that opens at 8 a.m. ET.

A toxic coolant leak discovered on Russian space station equipment is only the latest in a series of malfunctions in recent months.

Luna-25, Russia's first moon mission in 47 years, was the vanguard of a planned series of lunar probes.

NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) mission slammed into a small space rock last year, and the effects were visible from Earth orbit.

An International Space Station astronaut photographed Hurricane Ian as the powerful storm battered Florida. NASA, SpaceX and others have postponed launches from the Space Coast.

Auroras have been swirling through the skies already this week as the sun awakens from slumber.

Two hyper-dense neutron stars potentially merged to create the event.

Bursting water pipes are a major concern when winter temperatures drop below freezing. But why do freezing pipes burst?

Like some other metals, copper oxidizes when left out in the elements, but the coloring process is complicated.

The predatory fish, nicknamed 'Ironbound', is on his way north to Canada.

NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory in outer space spotted a solar eclipse when the moon passed in front of the sun on June 29, 2022.

Whether you call our planet the Earth, the world or a terrestrial body, all of these names have an origin story deep in history.

People in New York can catch the gorgeous "Manhattanhenge" this Memorial Day weekend on May 29 and 30.

A mile-wide asteroid passed by Earth on Friday (May 27) at a distance about 10 times that of the space between the Earth and moon.

Astronomers will have to wait a while to celebrate the first complete orbit of Pluto since its discovery.