NASA has identified two types of auroras—fast-pulsating and flickering. Pulsating auroras flash on and off within seconds.

In the United States, funding for planetary defense has long had strong bipartisan support both inside and outside of ...

Welcomed into the gymnasium with cheers and applause, Dr. Jeanette Epps visited the school during a trip to Nebraska for a new traveling exhibit at the Strategic Air Command and Aerospace Museum.

The program’s overall contract is worth up to $4.82 billion and over the next five years, Viasat will have a piece of that work. From there, NASA has the option to extend the contract an additional ...

NASA astronaut Don Pettit has captured another remarkable shot, this one showing the Betsiboka River estuary in Madagascar.

Joe Velaidum of Charlottetown on Prince Edward Island narrowly avoided a collision with an incoming meteorite at his home in July.

Venus, Saturn, Jupiter and Mars will appear to line up and be bright enough to see without a telescope or binoculars — and ...

With 2024 receding into the distance, NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory is already deep into a busy 2025. Early in the new year, the Eaton Fire came close to JPL, destroying the homes of more than 200 ...

Astronomers discovered supersonic winds on a giant gas planet located over 500 light-years from Earth. In a study released Tuesday in Astronomy & Astrophysics astronomers who have been studying ...

Scientists think a small rock discovered near Earth last August was hurled into space by an ancient impact on the lunar surface.

The data used to create the image is from a Hubble Space Telescope project to capture and map Jupiter's superstorm system.

Angry Astronaut and Nextbigfuture commenter are making the case that SpaceX and Elon Musk must switch to nuclear thermal rockets to colonize Mars. I will ...