On Sept. 11, 2022, engineers at a flight control center in Turin, Italy, sent a radio signal into deep space. Its destination was NASA’s DART (Double Asteroid ...

The terms “global warming” and “climate change” are sometimes used interchangeably, but "global warming" is only one aspect of climate change.

Inside a climate-controlled shipping container, the Sentinel-6B satellite arrived on a truck bed at Vandenberg Space Force Base in California on Aug. 18. Teams will unpack the satellite in several ...

This article was updated Aug. 20, 2025, to correct the number of years of training data used and the model accuracy. The original article said ...

Using NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope, a team led by the Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) has identified a previously unknown moon orbiting Uranus, ...

NASA’s new compact radar spots millimeter-scale Earth changes from the sky—no GPS needed—and could one day map other worlds.

Exploring the Cosmos and Inspiring Young Minds From January through June 2025, the Education Outreach Office at the University of Alaska Fairbanks Geophysical Institute (GI) continued its mission of ...

The Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter is testing a series of large spacecraft rolls that will help it hunt for water. After nearly 20 years of operations, NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) is on a ...

Seventeen days after NISAR’s launch from southeastern India, an essential piece of science hardware has unfurled in orbit. Spanning 39 feet (12 meters), the drum-shaped antenna reflector on the NISAR ...

New research uncovers the connection between space agriculture and astronaut health. A study published in npj Microgravity shows how analyzing diverse datasets together can reveal insights that might ...