The Earth and moon are within view of NASA's Artemis 1 Orion spacecraft. The Earth is over 260,000 miles away (418,000 km) in ...

On a mission to map the Sun! Chandlor Jordan shows how NASA's newest innovations will work together, in your "Moment of ...

The term “ecosystem engineering” has been used for decades as a way to describe organisms that drastically alter their ...

Her determination eventually led her to join NASA and take a leading role in building the International Space Station through ...

The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine are private, nonprofit institutions that provide expert advice on some of the most pressing challenges facing the nation and world. Our ...

When Earth is opposite Mars from the sun, it will appear full because you’re looking directly on the daylit side. But ...

Earth has a near miss—twice—after two small asteroids seemingly passed alarmingly close to the planet, less than two days apart, one of them going completely unnoticed until hours after it had already ...

A cluster of telescopes lined the concrete outside of Kika Silva Pla Planetarium, and families leaned in to take peeks at the moon’s craters through their lenses. Strangers chatted to each other about ...

Climate change deniers love to point out that plants flourish when carbon dioxide levels rise. As we burn fossil fuels, their thinking goes, the Earth will become greener and even more supportive of ...

Immunologists Mary E. Brunkow, Fred Ramsdell and Shimon Sakaguchi were awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for uncovering a process that prevents the immune system from attacking our own ...

A newly discovered asteroid just whizzed past Earth, marking the second-closest asteroid flyby on record, astronomers say. The asteroid flew over Antarctica just before 9 p.m. ET on Sept. 30, about ...