In one of the biggest surprises of NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission, its target asteroid, Bennu, turned out to be a jagged, rugged ...

Abundant rainfall in February and March 2026 transformed the desert landscape of Central Australia.

A NASA laser reflecting technology that will aid Global Positioning System (GPS) accuracy is now operational as of March 9.

The bigger the hailstone, the more damage it can cause. But scientists find that predicting hailstone size can be challenging ...

A series of nighttime satellite images revealed how moonlight reaching Earth varied throughout a total lunar eclipse.

Data collected by NASA's missions about interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS will continue to reveal insights about the comet and ...

A NASA-sponsored team has developed electronics that can operate reliably in the harsh radiation and temperature conditions found on distant planetary bodies like Europa, an ocean world orbiting ...

NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory captured this image of a solar flare — seen as the bright flash on the right — on Dec. 8, 2025. The image shows a subset of extreme ultraviolet light that highlights ...

NASA’s groundbreaking science and exploration missions increasingly rely on the efficient use of large-scale data, advanced computing, and high-performance analytics. Led by Kevin Murphy (Chief ...

Lake Unter-See in Antarctica, sealed beneath thick ice, contains unusually high levels of dissolved oxygen and cone-shaped microbial reefs resembling some of Earth’s oldest fossils.

After relinquishing control of forests to the villages that depend on them, forest cover in this small mountainous country nearly doubled.

All seven planets of the TRAPPIST-1 system orbit closer to their host star than Mercury does to the Sun. This diagram compares the orbits of the seven TRAPPIST-1 planets around their star, which are ...