The Surface Water and Ocean Topography (SWOT) satellite will observe nearly all water on Earth's surface, helping people on the coasts and inland better prepare for the effects of climate change.

Following a 25-day voyage around the moon, NASA's Artemis 1 spacecraft is scheduled to splash down off Baja California Sunday.

CARNARVON, South Africa—South African officials and scientists on Monday celebrated a milestone towards building the world’s largest radio astronomy instrument, which is co-hosted with Australia and aims to unlock mysteries of the universe. The construction launch outside the remote town of Carnarvon, Northern Cape, marks the next phase of developing a complex instrument aimed at […]

The first in a series of increasingly complex missions, Artemis I will provide a foundation for human deep space exploration and demonstrate NASA's commitment and capability to extend human presence to the Moon and beyond.

Enormous polygon-shaped cyclones systems at Jupiter’s north and south poles have baffled scientists as to how they maintain their bizarre but beautifully geometric shapes for years.

The loud boom residents across northern Utah reported hearing early Saturday morning may have been caused by a meteor, officials say.

SPACE — This week, NASA unveiled photos of distant galaxy clusters now visible from the world's most powerful telescope. After seeing the images, millions have reported an uncontrollable urge to praise whoever may have created such a majestic, expansive universe.

New research from the Hubble Space Telescope has shown there is a huge discrepancy between the universe's current rate of expansion compared to observations from right after the Big Bang.

NASA said "this sonification is unlike any other done before."

Stargazers and early risers are in for a rare treat on Sunday morning with four planets set to align followed by Venus and Jupiter appearing to almost collide with one another. Saturn, Mars, Venus, and Jupiter will look like they’re in a straight line early on Sunday morning, the Australian National University says The two […]

Illustration by Elizabeth Brockway/The Daily Beast For more than 60 years, scientists have been pointing radio antennas at the sky, hoping to overhear a broadcast from an alien civilization—proof that we’re not alone in the universe. But the search for extraterrestrial intelligence, or SETI, is like listening for a whisper in a hurricane. Space is incomprehensibly big. There’s noise sputtering from every direction, especially from the countless number of stars dying and being born. A signal from E.T. might be faint. We’ve got only so many instruments and so much time, money and manpower for ou [...]

Researchers from Hokkaido University in Japan, discovered the compounds needed to form DNA on three separate meteorites that crashed to Earth in 1950, 1969 and 2000.

Liquid methane rain and nitrogen winds produce hydrocarbon dunes and open plains, according to a team of planetary scientists from Stanford University in California.

The first solar eclipse of 2022 arrives this week. A partial solar eclipse will be visible over parts of Antarctica, South America, and the Pacific and Atlantic oceans on April 30. And while skygazers in the U.K. and U.S. won’t get to see it in person, they can watch a live stream of the rare...

US Imposes Ban On Anti-Satellite Weapons Tests To Highlight Russian Malfeasance In Space The Biden administration is implementing a self-imposed ban on all anti-satellite weapons testing, in order to take the lead in highlighting what it says are the dangerous and irresponsible Russian tests in space, which have lately created a potentially disastrous field of space debris . China has also been accused of similarly reckless anti-satellite missile testing. NBC reported the initiative Monday based on admin sources, and a briefing provided to Congress indicates that the move is to a [...]

The megamaser, named Nkalakatha, was discovered by the MeerKAT telescope in South Africa.

NASA spotted the "tiny" spinning pulsar an incredible 1,600 light-years away from Earth.

Photo Illustration by Thomas Levinson/The Daily Beast/Getty Astronomers sifting through data from a NASA planet-hunting satellite have hit the jackpot: a common type of planet 131 light-years away called TOI-1759b, with an extremely uncommon story to tell. Thanks to its close proximity to its host star, the planet's atmosphere appears to be evaporating into dead expanse of space—extremely fast, by astronomical standards. Watching this radiation-induced “photoevaporation,” reported on in a new study led by Eder Martioli at the Laboratório Nacional de Astrofísica in Brazil, could help us underst [...]

The satellite imagery shows the "bomb cyclone" pulling moisture north from as far away as the Gulf of Mexico.

This is believed to be the first unintentional case of space junk hitting the moon, one astronomer said.