A NASA instrument to provide unprecedented resolution of monitoring major air pollutants – down to four square miles – lifted off on its way to geostationary orbit at 12:30 a.m. EDT Friday. The ...

After nearly 20 years on the Red Planet, NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) has snapped its 100,000th image of the ...

A powerful 2025 Kuril-Kamchatka earthquake generated a Pacific-wide tsunami, captured by NASA's SWOT satellite. These unprecedented high-resolution i ...

NASA has launched a high-resolution instrument to monitor air quality across the entire continental United States, providing data on everything from rush hour pollution to the effects of fertilizer ...

The Jovian moon, famous for its underground global ocean, may be more active than we realized. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works.

NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) officially went into service above the Red Planet in November 2006. The spacecraft ...

Valles Marineris in imagery captured the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter. Global topography: NASA/GSFC CTX global mosaic: NASA/MSSS/Caltech/ CTX topography: NASA/MSSS/USGS HiRISE: NASA/U.Arizona/USGS/Amaz ...

Bits of rock and dust brought back from the distant asteroid Bennu contain some of the chemical building blocks of life, NASA announced Wednesday, a discovery that strengthens the theory that ...

If you’re looking for some Red Planet real estate, there’s a new tool that could help you pick out the very best spot. Caltech scientists have created a nearly complete global map of Mars at an ...

A spacecraft exploring an asteroid belt successfully "phoned home" to NASA after a high-speed asteroid encounter on Wednesday. Hello Lucy! The spacecraft phoned home and is healthy. Now, the engineers ...

An air quality monitoring instrument has been launched by NASA into a fixed-rotation orbit around Earth that will observe harmful airborne pollutants in the atmosphere, including nitrogen dioxide, ...