Astronomy does not belong off Earth. It belongs wherever the universe can be observed — and that necessarily includes the surface of the planet humans live on. Kelsey Johnson: Past President of the ...

China's reusable Shenlong space plane launched on its fourth space mission earlier this month. What is it doing in Earth ...

Earth’s orbit is getting crowded, and scientists are warning that space may soon become too risky to manage safely. A new study published in Acta Astronautica takes on a question that could define the ...

Reusable launch vehicles — such as SpaceX’s Starship and Blue Origin’s New Glenn, Stoke Space’s Nova, Rocket Lab’s Neutron ...

NASA invites the public to join the Space Umbrella project, analyzing MMS data to study magnetic reconnection and solar wind interactions affecting space weather and technology.

A persistent "gravity hole" beneath Antarctica gives scientists a window into Earth's deep interior, showing how processes far below reshape the planet's gravity field over millions of years.

NASA has released a breathtaking timelapse of glowing green auroras filmed from the International Space Station, revealing how solar particles transform Earth’s skies into a sweeping cosmic light show ...

A computer chip so powerful that it fuels today's artificial intelligence is about to leave Earth. NVIDIA's H100 GPU, used to train advanced AI models, will soon travel aboard a Starcloud satellite.

A 2021 satellite photo shows off the recently uncovered Yilan crater in China, which is most likely the youngest impact ...

In a new book, NASA astrobiologist Caleb Scharf says the fate of life on Earth may hinge on leaving our planet behind The multibillion-year story of life on Earth is defined by a handful of epochal ...

A 2010 astronaut photo shows off the astonishing scale of the Great Dyke of Zimbabwe, which stretches over 340 miles (550 ...