For centuries, Earth has been pictured as a near-perfect blue sphere floating through space — but a new high-precision gravity model is revealing a far stranger reality. Using detailed measurements ...
We like to think of our home as a nice, smooth sphere. But mapping the Earth’s gravitational field provides a different view ...
The Soyuz MS-28 landing in Kazakhstan brought a 241-day stay in space to a successful conclusion.
Asteroid Bennu is one of the most closely watched rocks in the solar system, and for good reason: it is among the very few ...
NASA launched the Swift Boost mission earlier this month to try and save one of its aging science observatories, but the ...
NASA will livestream the August 12 total solar eclipse and chase the Moon's shadow to study the Sun and Earth's atmosphere.
Before permanent lunar bases become possible, someone has to level the ground. Preparing the ...
A spacecraft meant to push NASA’s Swift Observatory to a higher orbit malfunctioned and started tumbling several days ago.
As the world looks toward America’s historic return to the moon under NASA’s ambitious Artemis program, we are looking back ...
NASA says three members of the International Space Station are back on Earth after an 8-month-long space mission.
Earth’s magnetic shield may not have the safety limit scientists once thought it did. New research suggests that the most powerful solar storms could disturb the planet’s upper atmosphere up to twice ...
An unmanned spacecraft that was sent to rescue a falling NASA space telescope now needs an intervention of its own. NASA’s ...