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…
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…
Night and (Earth) Day – NASA
This image, released in celebration of Earth Day, shows the terminator – the line between night and day…
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…
Sightings of Meteors Surge, and Scientists Aren’t Sure Why
It seems as though stars have been shooting across the heavens far more than usual lately. In March,…
New NASA Views of Earth, From (S)PACE
NASA’s photos of Earth released during Artemis II’s mission around the moon show our planet against the dark…
NASA says giant asteroid will skim closer to Earth than satellites
Brace yourself for a once-in-a-lifetime cosmic spectacle that sounds almost too unreal to believe: NASA has confirmed that…
Fungi Survive Space and Mars Conditions, Study Finds
Engineers face an omnipresent but invisible enemy: microbial life in the cleanrooms where spacecraft are put together. All…
What’s the weirdest planet in the solar system?
Even at a glance, the planets in our solar system are wildly diverse. Huge and small, airless and…
China’s space station crew to ‘maximise opportunities’ with extra month in orbit
The three astronauts stationed on China’s Tiangong space station will extend their stay by around a month, state…