NASA noted that a particularly strong El Niño — a natural climate fluctuation — that began in fall 2023 likely pushed the ...

An enormous asteroid potentially larger than the Washington Monument is due to zip past our planet today. The asteroid, named ...

Firefly Aerospace's soon-to-launch Blue Ghost moon lander will help NASA better understand our home planet, and how it ...

Last year was the planet’s hottest in recorded history, NASA announced, marking two years in a row that global temperatures ...

Earth has recorded its first temperatures in excess of thresholds set in the Paris climate agreement. Here's how warm it was ...

When astronaut Suni Williams launched to the International Space Station (ISS) in June 2024, her mission was planned as a ...

The Mars Sample Return mission has been ranked as the highest priority by planetary scientists, who hope to find signs of ...

NASA’s Goldstone Solar System Radar is closely tracking asteroid 2024 PT5 during its nearest approach to Earth, a distance ...

In the years following the launch of NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers have tallied over 1 trillion galaxies in the universe. But only one galaxy stands out as the most important nearby ...

NASA on Tuesday announced an overhaul to its plan to collect samples from Mars and return them to Earth. Agency officials ...

The agency is starting down two different paths toward the samples' return, but only one will bring the red rocks home.

NASA's LEXI instrument is set to land on the moon's surface sometime this month. Using X-ray sensors, the device will watch ...