NASA mission maps invisible heat loss from Earth's rapidly changing poles

At the top and bottom of the planet, the seasons arrive on a schedule all their own. Satellite data from a mission measuring ...

NASA’s New 3D Model Shows the Earth Is a Lumpy Mess

We like to think of our home as a nice, smooth sphere. But mapping the Earth’s gravitational field provides a different view ...

NASA built the Roman Space Telescope to study dark matter, but it can also help protect Earth from killer asteroids

NASA's Roman Space Telescope wasn't designed for asteroid hunting, but its massive field of view makes it a powerful addition ...

NASA model reveals Earth is actually shaped like a potato

For centuries, Earth has been pictured as a near-perfect blue sphere floating through space — but a new high-precision gravity model is revealing a far stranger reality. Using detailed measurements ...

Earth plays peekaboo with NASA's Perseverance rover across space

These are precious pixels.

NASA's bid to save a prized space telescope takes an alarming turn

NASA's highly-anticipated mission to save the Swift Observatory from doom is now fighting for its own survival. Here's the ...

NASA's Perseverance captures Phobos and Earth

This composite of seven images from the Mastcam-Z instrument aboard NASA's Perseverance Mars rover shows Earth, visible as a ...

Russian Soyuz brings three home after 8 months at space station

The Soyuz MS-28 landing in Kazakhstan brought a 241-day stay in space to a successful conclusion.
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Earth Day in the Artemis era: Can NASA’s moon missions spur a new environmental movement?

NASA launched four astronauts on a pioneering journey around the moon—the Artemis II mission. Follow our coverage here. Just 14 days ago, amid the mundanity of East Coast commutes and West Coast alarm ...