Spacecraft to probe how Earth fends off raging solar winds
A joint European-Chinese spacecraft is set to blast off Tuesday to investigate what happens when extreme winds and…
SpaceX Space Junk Could Crash Into The Moon In August, Scientist Says
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, carrying Firefly Aerospace’s Blue Ghost and ispace’s Resilience lunar landers, streaks into orbit…
A big step forward for optical core of China’s Taiji gravitational wave project
In the sci-fi novel The Three-Body Problem, humans build “gravitational wave antennas” to broadcast to the cosmos. Now,…
Scientists discover Earth has a hidden eighth continent
For centuries, humanity believed Earth had only seven continents, but scientists now say a massive hidden landmass nearly…
Glowing Views from the Space Station
NASA astronaut Chris Williams captured the Milky Way rising above Earth’s atmospheric glow on April 13, 2026, while…
NASA Releases Thousands of Unseen Artemis II Photos
The photo trove includes the spectacular eclipse the Artemis astronauts witnessed but also images that give a more…
A ‘Potentially Hazardous’ Asteroid Will Pass Close to Earth in 2029 — and It Has an Alarming Nickname
NEED TO KNOW An asteroid, eerily named Apophis, will pass closer to Earth than many satellites in geosynchronous…
Artemis II crew reveal the 1st food they ate after splashing down on Earth
The crew of NASA’s Artemis II moon mission revealed on Friday morning the first thing they ate when…
Japan eyes world-first transmission of space-based solar power to Earth
Science Experiment will use microwaves to send electricity from orbit Japan aims to launch a 2.5-square-kilometer solar panel…
Nighttime Imaging Grows Landsat’s Science Value
By Earth Resources Observation and Science (EROS) Center For more than 50 years, Landsat has imaged Earth’s land and near-shore…
NASA Shares Unseen Artemis II Photos to Mark Earth Day
NASA released the images to mark Earth Day. To mark Earth Day (April 22), NASA has released a…
Advancing Earth Observation at NASA Since Release of Earthrise Photo
When NASA’s Apollo 8 crew rounded the far side of the Moon in 1968 and astronaut Bill Anders…