The interstellar comet will pass safely by Earth, giving astronomers their best chance to study it up close.

An astonishingly high-resolution satellite that launched today will soon map changes on Earth’s surface in unprecedented detail — tracking everything from sinking croplands to crumbling ice sheets and ...

A photo of a NASA ER-2 high-altitude aircraft with the AVIRIS and HyTES instruments installed. Credit: NASA NASA and the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) will map portions of the southwest United States ...

The U.S. has contended with unrelenting temperatures this summer, and a map from NASA paints a dire picture of the scale of those persistent heat waves. The map, which consists of a snapshot of ...

Cradled in the nose of a high-altitude research airplane, a new NASA sensor has taken to the skies to help geoscientists map ...

most extensive global topographic map. The data, extensive enough to fill the U.S. Library of Congress, was gathered during the Space Shuttle Endeavour Radar Topography Mission (SRTM) in February 2000 ...

NASA and the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) are about to launch a groundbreaking satellite that can monitor Earth’s surface with incredible accuracy. This new satellite, named NISAR (short ...

Various minerals are revealed in vibrant detail in this sample mineral map of Cuprite, Nevada, following processing of imaging spectrometer data. On a crystal-clear afternoon above a desert ghost town ...

NASA's Mars Atmosphere and Volatile EvolutioN (MAVEN) orbiter is no longer communicating with Earth, after an unknown ...

Exoplanets are planets outside Earth's solar system that most often orbit a star. Astronomers have managed to bring an exoplanet into unprecedented focus by using a technique the researchers call 3D ...

NASA test drove the mini autonomous rovers that will soon fly to the moon and collectively map the lunar surface. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here ...

450 million galaxies and 100 million stars are to be mapped in unprecedented detail. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. A new ...