Extraterrestrial landers sent to gather samples from the surface of distant moons and planets have limited time and battery ...

Scientists have created the first-ever 3D maps of star-forming molecular clouds near the Milky Way's supermassive black hole, ...

NASA's upcoming Pandora mission will complement the James Webb Space Telescope by making it easier to detect water in the atmospheres of distant exoplanets.

NASA launched its PACE climate satellite with the Dutch aerosol instrument SPEXone onboard. A full year of observations now ...

Measurements and data collected from space can be used to better understand life on Earth.

An asteroid the size of 59 Bono's is racing towards Earth and would 'devastate' Ireland if it hit. Global defence plans have ...

A newly confirmed exoplanet around a nearby sunlike star might be astronomers’ best chance yet to look for life beyond the ...

The findings provide the strongest evidence yet that asteroids may have planted the seeds of life on Earth and that these ...

Then artificial intelligence—combined with satellite images—lent a hand. Last year, journalists with the environmental-news nonprofit Mongabay used a free AI tool, called Earth Index, to analyze ...

The VSS Unity travels to around 90 km above the Earth’s surface, which reaches the definition of space in NASA’s book ... “There, they can perform real-time scientific exploration, analyze ...

The images were captured using NASA’s Earth Polychromatic Imaging ... DSCOVR’s primary mission is to monitor real-time solar winds for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration ...

NASA recently released images of the Andromeda galaxy, an "enticing empire of stars" that can be seen with the naked eye if weather conditions are just right. About 100 years after astronomer ...