NASA astronaut Kathleen “Kate” Rubins has retired from the space agency after 16 years, two missions on...
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Carrying an advanced radar system that will produce a dynamic, three-dimensional view of Earth in unprecedented detail,...
Earth is fortunate in having a magnetic field: it protects the planet and its life from harmful...
NASA and India paired up to launch an Earth-mapping satellite on Wednesday capable of tracking even the...
Martian glaciers are mostly pure ice across the Red Planet, suggesting they might potentially be useful resources...
Since the discovery of planetary nebulae in the late 1700s, astronomers have learned that these expanding shells...
Efrain Morales captured the image of Titan's shadow darkening Saturn on July 18, while the gas giant...
Ice crystals in Earth’s atmosphere sometimes align just right to create various striking visual effects, from a...
Satellites don't stop at borders and neither should science.
A desert region in northern Mexico sparked the imagination of Prof. Joel Stavans, a physicist who studies...
SAN FRANCISCO — Kongsberg Satellite Services and Amazon Web Services are expanding their alliance to speed up...
For more than 150 years, the OJ 287 galaxy and its brightness variations five billion light years...
The satellite will scan the Earth twice every 12 days.
Rather than completely burning up when a spacecraft reenters Earth’s atmosphere, its heat shield’s outer surface is...
It can be said with certainty that a lot went into Operation Midnight Hammer. The June 22...
China launched a sixth batch of Guowang megaconstellation satellites Wednesday, with a Long March 8A rocket launch...
The Smithsonian Institution says NASA relinquished full ownership of Space Shuttle Discovery, but Congress wants to force...
An Indian rocket placed into orbit a billion-dollar Earth science mission jointly developed by NASA and the...
The U.S. and India just launched NISAR, a powerful radar satellite that will be able to monitor...
An international team of astronomers has employed NASA’s Chandra X-ray observatory to perform the most detailed study...