The event also offers geologists a rarely seen opening study of ocean birth in real-time, an event never detected before. The process might take millions of years, but its effects are already being ...

NASA was formed in 1958 "to provide for research into problems of flight within and outside the Earth's atmosphere, and for ...

The $10 billion orbiting observatory will give astronomers a better sense of the near-Earth asteroid 2024 YR4's size and ...

One of the highlights for astronauts who spend time aboard the International Space Station (ISS) is the chance to enjoy ...

Data collected from a once-defunct NASA satellite show that Earth grew two extra radiation belts following a supercharged ...

Barry Wilmore remains at the International Space Station after problems with a spacecraft, with late March now the scheduled ...

Firefly Aerospace’s Blue Ghost mission, launched earlier this month on a mission to the moon, has captured stunning video of the Earth eclipsing the sun as seen from space. The Blue Ghost lander ...

In the photo from the space station, the comet is captured just above Earth’s horizon, which is illuminated by a bright light — also known as airglow — that occurs in the planet’s upper atmosphere ...

Credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center/Kristen Perrin Earth grew a pair of extra "radiation ... which is unlike any similar structure seen before, might still be there. In a new study published ...

Auroras are perhaps the most spectacular natural light shows on Earth — and they look even more majestic from above. Also called the northern lights (aurora borealis) and southern lights (aurora ...

The discovery of chorus waves happened by accident—and not in space but on Earth—when World War I radio operators overheard them emanating from thunderstorms. “People were listening for ...