Happy Earth Day 2024! NASA picks 6 new airborne missions to study our changing planet

In a media briefing on Friday (April 19), NASA officials announced six new airborne missions that will focus on arctic coastal change, weather created by wildfires, urban air pollution, impacts of ... Read More

NASA ends CloudSat Earth-observing mission after 18 years

NASA's pioneering CloudSat weather and climate mission has come to an end after nearly 18 productive years in Earth orbit. The agency recently decommissioned the satellite, which launched in April ... Read More

Inside NASA's 5-month fight to save the Voyager 1 mission in interstellar space

After months of trying to reestablish communication with the Voyager 1 probe — the most distant human-made object in existence — NASA finally announced success. Read More

Scientists Plan for Apophis’s Unnervingly Close Brush With Earth

In our top stories this week, reporter Passant Rabie explores potential projects to visit and study asteroid Apophis when it performs a close encounter with Earth in 2029. Consumer Reports reveals ... Read More

Starless Rogue Planet As Heavy As 10 Earths Found By NASA Telescope

NASA’s planet-hunting telescope Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) has discovered its first free-floating, or rogue, planet. It is a terrestrial object, likely bigger than Earth but not by ... Read More

Australia has a new astronaut. But what would it take to get her to space?

Pegg, who has graduated from the European Space Agency, is the first person to train as an astronaut under the Australian flag. Read More