Surrounding the Earth is a vast protective bubble called the heliosphere, formed by the solar wind that streams outward from the Sun. Scientists want to know what shapes this bubble and how it ...

The sun has become more and more active over the last 16 years, in a turn that surprised scientists and could affect space weather and technology on Earth, NASA announced this week. A new research, ...

NASA’s Magnetospheric Multiscale Mission has uncovered surprising behavior of pickup ions drifting through the solar wind near Earth. These particles, once thought to be minor players, appear capable ...

NASA satellite data and trainings helped Uruguay create a drought-response tool that its National Water Authority now uses to monitor reservoirs and guide emergency decisions. A similar approach could ...

NASA’s Habitable Worlds Observatory "will draw on technologies proven by the agency’s Hubble, Webb and upcoming Roman Space Telescopes," to search for life outside our solar system, according to the ...

SpaceX is preparing to launch three spacecraft on a first-of-its-kind mission to study the sun's influence throughout the solar system, from Earth's atmosphere to the edge of interstellar space. A ...

A consortium comprising the Netherlands Organization for Applied Scientific Research (TNO), the Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems (ISE), and the three solar technology system suppliers for ...

The image was taken with SHERLOC, a high-tech instrument mounted on Perseverance's robotic arm, built to hunt for signs of life—though in this case, it captured something a little more whimsical.

"When we see features like this in sediment on Earth, these minerals are often the byproduct of microbial metabolisms that are consuming organic matter." Since February 2021, NASA's Perseverance rover ...

NASA is tracking an airplane-sized asteroid that's due to zip past Earth tomorrow at around 28,600 miles per hour, according to the space agency's Center for Near-Earth Object Studies (CNEOS). The ...