NISAR’s first radar images reveal how this powerful satellite will help track disasters, monitor crops, and study Earth’s ...

An asteroid hurtling through space could hit the moon in 2032 – and scientists are weighing how best to deal with it.

A paper from several NASA scientists and other researchers explores whether an asteroid with a 4% chance of hitting the moon ...

When it comes to habitable places in our solar system, the tiny moons of Saturn don’t seem likely candidates. Yet time and ...

A UCLA astronomer who leads planetary defense missions for NASA says avoiding asteroid impacts is “a problem we can ...

These so-called Venus co-orbital asteroids are currently undetected because of their alignment in the sky but could one day drift into Earth’s path, at least according to simulations combining ...

The ISS feels impossibly far at 250 miles up, but lunar missions go 240,000 miles out - over 1000x the distance. It's a ...

Reanalyzing old data with our modern understanding seems to be in vogue lately. However, the implications of that reanalysis are more impactful for some topics than for others.

Extreme weather events, from heavy rainfall to heat waves and droughts, are increasingly threatening crop yields globally, so ...

The Houston native holds a master's degree in biomedical engineering from Duke University and previously worked in NASA's ...

The small moon is one of 274 orbiting Saturn and has long been considered a prime candidate in the search for life beyond ...

What about those previously studied plumes of methane and meteorites potentially stuffed with the fossils of Martian microbes ...