Astronomers are racing to study 3I/ATLAS, an interstellar comet whose strange behavior reveals new clues about how other ...
A new NASA mission will capture images of Earth's invisible "halo," the faint light given off by our planet's outermost atmospheric layer, the exosphere, as it morphs and changes in response to the ...
NASA could soon trial a new defence strategy to prevent a giant asteroid hurtling towards the Moon and posing a huge risk to astronauts. It comes after NASA intentionally used a spacecraft to bump ...
NASA’s Curiosity rover captured a clear panorama of Mars' Gale Crater in August, during the Martian winter when dust levels tend to be at their lowest. Curiosity’s mission continues to study whether ...
When considering life on Earth, humans, plants, and exotic animals, such as lions and giraffes, often come to mind. However, there is a tendency to overlook the many species of microscopic organisms, ...
A lookout point in the foothills of Mount Sharp, a 3-mile-high mountain, allowed the rover to see all the way across Gale ...
NASA's Earth Observatory has announced that Alaska has a "brand new island" after a retreating glacier lost contact with the ...
In 2005, ESA's Huygens probe landed on Titan, revealing the atmosphere, landscapes, and chemistry of Saturn's moon.
Hailstones drove into terrain in southern Alberta during a storm Aug. 20, creating a scar on the landscape visible in NASA ...
"This is the observatory's full field of view, a rectangular area about 20 times wider than the full moon." You know how the James Webb Space Telescope is said to be revolutionizing astronomy because ...
The fires from a NASA Landsat. Image: NASA Earth Observatory images by Wanmei Liang, using Landsat data from the U.S. Geological Survey. Images taken by a NASA satellite this week reveal the worrying ...