Performed routinely every few weeks, reboosts counteract atmospheric drag from Earth's thin upper layers, which gradually erodes the station's altitude.

SAN FRANCISCO – NASA’s Earth Science Division is exploring partnerships with external organizations to support instrument ...

One half of Earth is cooling at record speed, and it sounds harmless… until the consequences hit. This video breaks down what ...

The latest map, published Monday in the journal Nature Astronomy, includes information on new galaxy clusters and the strands of dark matter that connect them. Piece by piece, these structures help ...

For decades, scientists treated the end of Earth’s habitability as a problem for the far future, measured in several billion ...

NASA research using Apollo lunar regolith data refines the Moon’s impact record and places limits on meteorite contributions to Earth’s water over geologic time.

At the heart of our own galaxy, there is a dense thicket of stars with a supermassive black hole at the very center. NASA's ...

For the first time, NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has seen a young star forge crystals in blazing heat and hurl them to ...

NASA reports that its moon mission is accelerating, with plans to return astronauts to the lunar surface by 2028.

NASA's Space Shuttle Program, which ran from 1981 to 2011, was a complex and ambitious project that pushed the boundaries of ...

Advances in technology have reopened the debate over terraforming Mars, shifting it from an impossible dream to a long-term scientific and ethical question.

Bright white rocks spotted by NASA’s Perseverance rover are rewriting what we thought we knew about ancient Mars. These ...