NASA and the US Geological Survey have successfully launched a joint mission involving Landsat 9, a satellite that will spend its days in space observing Earth's coastlines and landscapes over time.

Dr. Leroy Chiao is the CEO and co-founder of OneOrbit LLC, a keynote, training and education company. He served as a NASA astronaut from 1990 to 2005 and flew four missions into space aboard three ...

(MENAFN- The Conversation) Even at a distance of 93 million miles (150 million kilometers) away , activity on the Sun can have adverse effects on technological systems on Earth. Solar flares – intense ...

For more than 400 years, astronomers have studied the sun from afar. Now NASA has decided to go there. The name of the mission is Solar Probe+. It's a heat-resistant spacecraft designed to plunge deep ...

Freelance writer Amanda C. Kooser covers gadgets and tech news with a twist for CNET. When not wallowing in weird gear and iPad apps for cats, she can be found tinkering with her 1956 DeSoto. New ...

Col. Jeffrey Williams is on his third trip in space, his second long-duration flight in three years. But this is his first time in orbit during the winter. The Northland looks different this time ...

The Hubble Space Telescope was launched and is operated in collaboration between NASA and the European Space Agency. A hardware issue rendered the telescope inoperable in June, and attempts to restore ...

What does it feel like to be in space? To lift off from the planet and launch into the galaxy? To put on a space suit and see Earth from afar? Up until now, only a select few got to experience those ...

A stunning new photo of Earth from Saturn was released by NASA thanks to one of its major spacecrafts, Cassini. The photo that's reminiscent of "Pale Blue Dot" is one of Cassini's latest photos before ...

If space robots ever perform satellite repairs or fix up a base on the far side of the moon, their human operators will need long-distance vision and a delicate touch despite sitting thousands of ...

From more than 15 billion miles away, NASA engineers last April began repairing a space probe that is headed to the constellation of Ophiucus, though it won't arrive for some 38,000 years. NASA ...