Mars’ north polar vortex locks its atmosphere in extreme cold and darkness, freezing out water vapor and triggering a ...

India's Chandrayaan-2 orbiter has achieved a groundbreaking first, detecting the impact of solar Coronal Mass Ejections on ...

Today I'm bringing you 25 facts about geologic time that made our brains hurt — starting with the one that makes it clear we only just got here. Grab your copy of What The Facts now, available on ...

Up to four satellites from Elon Musk’s massive Starlink constellation are falling to Earth every day, according to space trackers. Jonathan McDowell, an astronomer at the Harvard–Smithsonian Center ...

Due to the lapse in federal government funding, NASA is not updating this website. What’s Up for October? A Supermoon takes over, the Draconid meteor shower peeks through, and the Orionid meteors ...

NASA's Psyche has set a new benchmark for space communications. In December 2024, the spacecraft successfully beamed an infrared laser message back to Earth from a mind-boggling distance of 494 ...

ABSTRACT: Aerosols play a critical role in Earth’s climate system. They influence cloud formation, atmospheric dynamics and Earth’s energy balance. This study presents a comprehensive spatiotemporal ...

An illustration of a habitable zone planet orbiting the star called TRAPPIST – credit NASA, ESA, CSA, J. Olmsted (STScI) One of the major things that the mightily impressive James Webb Space Telescope ...

Scientists have uncovered an unexpected witness to Earth’s distant past: tiny iron oxide stones called ooids. These mineral snowballs lock away traces of ancient carbon, revealing that oceans between ...

Wondering about the next full moon or why tonight's moon looks orange? Here's what to know and when to see the bright hunter's supermoon of 2025. The moon appears orange because its light, reflected ...

Why it's incredible: The forest preserves some of the oldest trees in the world. The Cairo Fossil Forest is a unique collection of 385 million-year-old trees preserved in an abandoned quarry in ...

It joins NASA 's Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe (IMAP) and the National Atmospheric and Oceanic Administration (NOAA)'s Space Weather Follow-on Lagrange-1 (SWFO-L1) probes on a journey to ...