A private spacecraft on a pretty badass mission has sent back footage of the far side of the Moon, on its way to land in the ...

A red-hot lava flow two miles long has been attracting crowds to the slopes of Mount Etna on the island of Sicily, Italy.

Hundreds of millions of Americans will have the chance in March to see the first total lunar eclipse in nearly three years.

As dark moonless skies make new observations of asteroid 2024 YR4 possible, researchers are refining its orbit — and its ...

Storms that swept across the American southeast caused multiple rivers in the state to overflow, killing nine and forcing the ...

From space, scientists can track everything from sea levels or greenhouse gases to infectious bacteria or water stored ...

Parts of the Southeast saw devastating flash floods as a powerful storm deposited up to 6 inches of rain this past weekend.

SpaceX broke new ground during its Starlink internet satellite launch today (Feb. 18). A Falcon 9 rocket lofted 23 Starlink ...

Rocket Lab launched a high-resolution Earth-imaging satellite toward low Earth orbit this evening (Feb. 18). An Electron vehicle carrying the first "Gen-3" satellite for the geospatial intelligence ...

The space telescope Gaia has created the largest three-dimensional map of the Milky Way ever. On January 15, 2025, Gaia shut ...

This website is funded by NASA and managed by NSIDC that provides the latest satellite data and scientific analyses of sea ice conditions in the Arctic and around Antarctica. Sea Ice Today was ...

Trans-Neptunian objects (TNOs) are icy bodies that vary widely in size, from large dwarf planets like Pluto and Eris—each ...