SAN FRANCISCO – NASA’s Earth Science Division is exploring partnerships with external organizations to support instruments ...

ESA astronaut Sławosz Uznański-Wiśniewski has released breathtaking timelapse footage of Earth and the Moon, captured during ...

The University of Pittsburgh officially launched a $25 million biomedical institute Thursday aimed at bridging human health ...

Falling space junk is becoming a real-world hazard, and scientists have found a clever new way to track it using instruments ...

A 13-atom molecule containing sulfur has been discovered in interstellar space for the first time, providing insight into the origins of the chemistry of life.

Earth’s atmosphere is slowly leaking into space, and new research shows some of it reaches the Moon, where it may be ...

In the bigger picture, "down" could be defined as being below the plane of the solar system, which is known as the ecliptic. By convention, we say that above the plane is where the planets are seen to ...

Protecting astronauts from the punishing effects of spaceflight has quietly become one of the most productive health experiments in history. In orbit, the human body ages faster, bones thin, muscles ...

A 2020 astronaut photo shows the oasis town of Jubbah lurking within a paleolake in the wind shadow of Saudi Arabia's "two ...

Space technology on Earth has gone from futuristic to foundational in our everyday lives. From satellite innovations that enable global communication to space science applications improving ...

Scientists continue to mine data gathered by NASA's Kepler Space Telescope, retired in 2018, and continue to turn up ...

Space debris—the thousands of pieces of human-made objects abandoned in Earth's orbit—pose a risk to humans when they fall to ...