As NASA rolls out more powerful telescopes in the future, scientists will need a way to determine where to point them. A new ...

In a groundbreaking achievement, NASA has successfully reestablished contact with the Voyager spacecraft, now nearly 19 billion kilometers away from Earth. Launched over four decades ago, Voyager has ...

A sweeping cosmic census from the James Webb Space Telescope has unveiled nearly 1,700 galaxy groups—marking the deepest and ...

After a decade of orbital investigation, NASA’s MAVEN mission has made a pivotal breakthrough in unraveling the mystery of ...

NASA’s MAVEN finally sees sputtering—an escape process that stripped Mars of its atmosphere and ancient water.

Common projections shrink the size of Africa, but experts have long debated whether creating a precise map is possible.

NASA’s SWOT satellite has measured large river waves for the first time, which were found to be caused by extreme rainfall ...

The International Astronomical Union’s Minor Planet Center, which catalogs new moons and other small bodies in the solar ...

Two new studies used gravity data to pull back the curtain on the deep interiors of the Moon and one of the solar system’s largest asteroids.

NASA’s SWOT satellite reveals how small ocean features move heat and nutrients, reshaping climate and circulation models.

"NASA invests in this kind of research because it connects space-based observation with real-world challenges," said Cynthia Hall, a support scientist at NASA headquarters in Washington.

The world has a more detailed map of the seafloor than ever before thanks to observations taken from space. NASA published a video this week showing a remarkably clear picture of the bottom of the ...