Exoplanet science and the search for life beyond Earth continue to advance at break-neck speeds, with the number of confirmed exoplanets by NASA rapidly approaching 6,300, with 223 of those exoplanets ...

NASA is preparing to launch a mission designed to provide a unique, inside-out view of the ring current. Called STORIE (Storm ...

For the first time, scientists have seen a subduction zone actively breaking apart beneath the Pacific Northwest. Seismic data show the oceanic plate tearing into fragments, forming microplates in a ...

Laser sail propulsion is an idea that won't go away. By aiming powerful Earth-based lasers at tiny spacecraft with light sails, tiny spacecraft can be accelerated to near-relativistic speeds without ...

An engineered E. coli strain survived after one amino acid was designed out of many of its ribosomal proteins—an early test ...

NASA’s Kennedy Space Center has launched an interactive Earth Day tool that uses Landsat satellite imagery to spell out names ...

"It doesn't present any danger to anyone, though it does highlight a certain carelessness about how leftover space hardware ...

Rare Earths Americas kicked off the roadshow for its U.S. initial public offering on Tuesday, aiming for a ​valuation of up ...

The closure of the Strait of Hormuz should inform our thinking about inhabiting the moon and defending cislunar space, said ...

The giant kraken, a mythical marine beast, may not be entirely fiction. New evidence suggests that octopuses up to 62 feet ...

NASA's new "Your Name in Landsat" tool transforms decades of satellite imagery into personalized collages. Users can spell ...

The farthest spacecraft from Earth has shut down another instrument in the hopes of buying time for an upgrade that could ...