Glaciers San Rafael and San Quintin have retreated significantly since 1987, showing the impact of global warming on Earth's ...

The CAVES training tests astronaut teamwork, resilience and scientific focus all needed for the challenges of spaceflight.

This photo was taken at Black Point Lava Flow in northern Arizona. The LER tests are part of NASA's Desert Research and Technology Studies ("Desert RATS") campaign. The program uses terrestrial ...

NASA's Voyager 2 spacecraft captured dark streaks produced by geysers visible on the icy surface of Triton's south polar ...

On 1983, U.S. troops, supported by six Caribbean nations, invaded the tiny, leftist-ruled island of Grenada, rescuing 1,000 ...

Peering into deep space, NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has helped astronomers find places to study gravitational lensing, an effect in which massive objects such as galaxies warp space-time itself ...

Hubble's sharp resolution allows observers to pore over the galaxy's details, showing that it has traits of both spiral and elliptical galaxies. Its core appears unusually smooth and gas-poor, traits ...

As nations and private companies prepare to ramp up the number of missions to the Moon, researchers at Rensselaer Polytechnic ...

A stunning image captured in Slovakia has been chosen as NASA’s Astronomy Picture of the Day. The photograph, taken by astrophotographer Tomáš Slovinský, shows comet Lemmon glowing above the High ...

Unique to the Orionids, NASA notes, the meteors seen during this shower are particularly fast and bright. Furthermore, they ...

As telescopes peer into the universe, they sometimes see quirks of nature that magnify faraway objects. These eight galaxies recently imaged by the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) appear stretched, ...

This was the first solar wind that was tracked by NASA's PUNCH Mission, a constellation of four 'travel bag'-sized small ...