NASA’s ICESat-2 has hit an incredible milestone: 2 trillion laser shots fired from orbit! This Earth-monitoring marvel has ...

A striking new image from the James Webb Space Telescope shows a rare object called an Einstein ring. This shows what appears to be a ring-shaped object in the sky, but is actually created by two ...

Rift in the Larsen C Ice Shelf as seen from a NASA aircraft on Nov. 10, 2016. Credit: nasa/John Sonntag The breakup of the massive Larsen C Ice Shelf in Antarctica is getting closer and will ...

The ring was seen around a galaxy known as NGC ... iridescent colors because they are made of carbon dioxide ice, according to NASA.

Sea ice plays many important roles for the global climate: Its white surface can reflect energy back into space, helping the ...

Saturn’s iconic rings will briefly vanish from view, a rare astronomical event caused by a quirk of planetary alignment. As ...

This year's Arctic sea ice peak is the lowest in the 47-year satellite record, according to data released by the US National ...

Skywatchers will get a rare chance to see Saturn in its full glory, without chunks of ice and rock swarming around it.

Touching down near the center of Mare Crisium, it is equipped with 10 NASA-sponsored instruments to ... permanently shadowed crater in search of ice deposits. Ice would be a critical resource ...

But observations by NASA’s former Cassini spacecraft ... it uncovered a trail of ice and gas leading back to Saturn’s E ring. Enceladus is the whitest, most reflective moon in our solar ...

Athena’s main payload is NASA’s PRIME-1 drill, which stands for Polar Resources Ice Mining Experiment 1 ... She said the space had a huge ring of craters around the base and cliff-like ...

Rather, the moon is wet, abundant with water that is largely stored away in the form of ice in the forbidding craters at its poles. That is why when NASA next sends astronauts to the moon’s ...