We often focus on space observatories that peer beyond Earth. But the vast majority of satellites stare right back at us.

We know more about the Moon’s surface than Earth’s ocean floor — but that’s changing fast. A NASA-supported team used a ...

The ice covering the newly discovered ecosystem belonged to the George VI Ice Shelf, a vast ice shelf "trapped" between the ...

A 2014 satellite image captured a rare glimpse of a massive, eerily circular ring of clouds that formed slap-bang in the ...

Arctic sea ice has likely reached its maximum extent for the year, at 14.33 million square kilometers (5.53 million square ...

This first light, as it's called, shows that all of the spacecraft's systems are working just as expected. "Based on the ...

Most people worry about climate change, but few know what to do. The right tools allow us to convert scientific urgency into ...

Lake Salda, in southwestern Turkey, bears a close resemblance to Mars' Jezero crater, which is currently being sampled by ...

A newly found super-Earth could help provide answers as to why there are hardly any planets twice the diameter of Earth.

A twisting, whirling streamer of plasma escaping the sun in the aftermath of a coronal mass ejection (CME) has been captured ...

The NASA History Office brings you the new Spring 2025 issue of NASA History News & Notes reflecting on some of the ...

The lake still hosts intact microbialites, but these will eventually be reworked and end up as sand on the shoreline, according to NASA's Earth Observatory. Using data from NASA's Mars ...