Shaped like a megaphone, the upcoming mission will map the entire sky in infrared light to answer big questions about the ...

NASA's newest Earth-observing satellite, PACE (Plankton, Aerosol, Cloud, ocean Ecosystem), is expected to provide new data to help scientists understand how changing levels of different ...

Scientists say the unfolding El Niño event superimposed on long-term global warming is a primary driver of this huge spike in ...

A capsule carrying about a half cup of dust and rocks from an ancient asteroid named Bennu landed in the Utah desert in 2023. The samples were collected by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission, which sent a ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Asteroid samples fetched by NASA hold not only the pristine building blocks for life but also the salty ...

Jan. 29 (UPI) --Rock and dust samples from the Bennu asteroid contain molecules that are the "key to life" on Earth, NASA officials announced on Wednesday. The samples were gathered by NASA's ...

NASA said it would do that “as soon as practical.” By Kenneth Chang In a post on X on Tuesday evening, Elon Musk said President Trump had asked his rocket company SpaceX to bring home “as ...

A new measurement confirms what previous -- and highly debated -- results had shown: ... NASA's Hubble Traces Hidden History of Andromeda Galaxy Jan. 17, 2025 — In the years following the launch ...

NASA's X-59 supersonic jet looks ready for some serious speed in new photos. Lockheed Martin has been building the X-59 for NASA, as part of a project to develop a "quiet" supersonic aircraft that ...

Scientists from NASA and other institutions who have been analyzing the Bennu asteroid sample that returned to Earth last September found molecules, including amino acids, which are essential ...

Planes that fly faster than the speed of sound create thunderous supersonic booms. But with NASA's X-59 plane, that could change. The space agency plans for the aircraft's first flight in 2025 ...