A team of geophysicists say that an enormous mass shifted deep beneath the Earth's surface 18 years ago, as spotted by NASA ...

The Paranal Observatory, one of the world's most important, faces a major risk of providing clear images because of a ...

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

A small asteroid will pass relatively close to Earth, highlighting the importance of global tracking and research. Scientists ...

The asteroid is projected to come within 865,000 miles of Earth—nearly five times closer than the orbit of the moon.

NASA is embarking on the Artemis I mission, its first lunar mission in over 50 years since the Apollo missions, with the goal of putting humans back on the Moon by 2024. The Artemis I is scheduled to ...

A comet from another star system is swinging by Mars as a fleet of spacecraft trains its sights on the interstellar visitor.

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

Smithsonian National Postal Museum, Washington, D.C.

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

The ISS is set for a controlled ocean descent in 2030, marking an end to over two decades of continuous human presence in ...