New ways to measure thawing permafrost could help us understand its potential impacts on infrastructure, military outposts, ...

In December 2024, the spacecraft successfully beamed an infrared laser message back to Earth from a mind-boggling distance of ...

China's Three Gorges Dam has effectively changed Earth's axis by nearly an inch since it was built nearly 18 years ago, ...

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From a distance, Biosphere 2 emerges from the cacti and creosote of the Sonoran desert like a gleaming oasis, a colony of ...

An Earth-observing radar satellite launched in July jointly between the U.S. and India has returned its first images of our ...

"If there is a space race, China's already winning it, and could win it dramatically in the next few decades." ...

NASA’s IMAP mission will explore the heliosphere and study how it shields Earth from cosmic radiation and space weather.

Solar storms —giant bursts of energy from the Sun that disturb the Earth’s magnetic field—may play a role in triggering heart ...

From Earth, the International Space Station will look like bright, fast moving, dot in the sky. The International Space ...

France and the United States are planning a second joint mission of coordinated satellite maneuvers in orbit, part of a ...

The spacecraft will map the boundaries of the heliosphere, study how Earth’s outer atmosphere reacts to solar activity and ...