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.
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 ...
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 ...
It took three million years for the chemical composition of the planet to be stable after its birth, but elements to help life came much later.
Today marks a new era in the history of Scripps Institution of Oceanography as Meenakshi Wadhwa takes the reins as the 12th ...
Over 80% of NASA's workforce is being told to stay home. More than 15,000 NASA civil servants have been furloughed as the U.S ...