On Jan. 31, 1958, Explorer 1 became the first satellite launched by the United States. Its primary science instrument, a ...

Wood has entered low Earth orbit in a form rarely seen before. In December 2024, five CubeSats were released from the ...

NASA Earth to Sky Team Adirondacks has invited the public to a celebration of science featuring climate research, astronomy and satellite discoveries about the Adirondack Park on Thursday, March 5 in ...

Just days ago the moon traveled directly between Earth and the sun in what was the first solar eclipse of the year, producing ...

Bad, bad, bad vibrations! A weather watchdog has reported an uptick in Earth’s “hum-like” heartbeat, raising concerns that it ...

The idea of waging war in orbit is no longer a figment of science fiction. As satellite technologies and launch capabilities ...

ESA's Proba-2 satellite captured a stunning 'ring of fire' annular solar eclipse from orbit — a view few on Earth could see.

"We don’t know where they are,” said NASA’s planetary defense officer Kelly Fast at the AAAS conference in Arizona this week.

Researchers used a pair of powerful supercomputers to simulate the potential trajectories of 1 million satellites in a ...

She’s worried about the a-rock-alypse. A planetary defense expert is warning that humanity is defenseless against up to 15,000 undetected near-Earth asteroids that have the potential to take out a ...

India's Aditya-L1 mission has uncovered why Earth's magnetic field behaved strangely during recent solar storms. A new study explains how polar electric currents reached the equator.

NASA scientists recently expressed alarm over the potential threat posed by approximately 15,000 undetected asteroids capable ...