NASA Puts 21-Year-Old Spacecraft on Pause to Keep It From Crashing Into Earth

To avoid Swift being dragged down low enough to hit Earth’s atmosphere, NASA tapped an Arizona-based startup to launch a ...
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Asteroid samples NASA brought to Earth suggest life's building blocks may be widespread in the universe

The discovery is just the latest to come from the asteroid sample, which dates back to the dawn of the solar system.

Goddard wins two NASA Earth missions to help predict, reduce harm from environmental disasters

Two new satellite missions will help NASA scientists better understand Earth and improve the ability to foresee environmental ...

NASA selects two Earth System Explorers missions

Two next-generation satellite missions announced Thursday will help NASA better understand Earth and improve capabilities to ...

NASA selects UC San Diego-led satellite mission to track Earth’s changing systems

NASA has selected UC San Diego's Scripps Institution of Oceanography to lead the Earth Dynamics Geodetic Explorer (EDGE) ...

NASA Telescope Discovers Nearby Planet With Deep Similarities to Earth

The researchers discovered the candidate world while examining data gathered by the NASA Kepler space telescope in 2017. It ...

NASA announces STRIVE and EDGE: Two ‘next-generation satellite missions’ set to monitor Earth’s extreme environments by 2030

NASA is returning to Earth in a big way. The space agency announced two new satellite missions that might change ‘how we see’ ...

Two new NASA satellites "STRIVE" and "EDGE" to be launched by 2030 to study Earth’s changing systems

NASA has selected two new Earth observation missions namely STRIVE and EDGE to better understand changes in the atmosphere, ...

NASA's Hubble telescope captures image of nebula with dying star

The Egg Nebula, located around 1,000 light years away, is home to a dying star entering last phase of its life.

SpaceX and NASA launch astronauts to relieve bare-bones crew at ISS

The four Crew-12 astronauts will bring the International Space Station’s staff back to seven after a month of operating with three people on board.
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UB scientists selected for NASA satellite mission to map Earth’s ice sheets and ecosystems

The first-of-its-kind satellite system will use lasers to make high-resolution observations to map Earth's ice sheets and ecosystems.

New NASA crew rockets to International Space Station to replace medical evacuation astronauts

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — A new crew rocketed toward the International Space Station on Friday to replace the astronauts who returned to Earth early in NASA’s first medical evacuation. SpaceX launched ...