After years of work building an exquisitely sensitive instrument, University of Chicago scientists stood and watched as it flew up and out of sight into the fiercely blue Antarctic sky. Launched on ...

NASA has selected two Earth science missions for development, one focused on studying the atmosphere and the other on terrestrial ecosystems and ice.

NASA has announced the discovery of an Earth-like planet orbiting a Sun-like star that shares several other similarities with ...

A late January 2026 winter storm left more than snow and ice in its wake.

A planet that looks faintly familiar has emerged from old space telescope data, though it may be far from welcoming. Scientists analysing observations from NASA’s retired Kepler mission report a ...

A new proposal suggests borrowing the "Conference of the Parties" model from climate diplomacy to update space law before ...

NASA's Artemis II crewed mission to the moon shows how U.S. space strategy has changed since Apollo -- and contrasts with ...

How does the solar wind get heated as it leaves the Sun and approaches Earth? This is what a recent study published in ...

Last fall, a plane took off from Ottawa, Ontario, with some unusual cargo: a collection of nonviable human embryos and eggs.