US budget cuts risk creating blind spots in Earth monitoring systems that would imperil weather forecasting and climate ...

From Earth, auroras — also known as the northern or southern lights according to the hemisphere in which they occur — appear as colorful lights dancing in the sky near the poles. Astronauts on the ...

Having struck an uneasy truce with the president, Elon Musk is starting to make political appearances again, and his allies ...

We first meet Izzy Gently, the protagonist of Joshua Wheeler’s captivating debut novel, The High Heaven, as a child. She is alone, wounded, and wandering. The year is 1967, and disaster has befallen ...

In other words, it’s a personalized cancer vaccine. Early tests of these vaccines are extremely promising. But the federal ...

Interest in Martian life had been spurred by a now infamous announcement from the White House lawn in 1996, when President ...

NASA is facing increasingly sharp challenges as it pursues its goal of landing astronauts on the moon again before this ...

NASA astronaut filmed a green aurora glowing on the planet’s edge and as the ISS moves forward, the aurora looks like it’s ...

A NASA astronaut posted a rare ISS view of northern lights glowing above North America, leaving viewers amazed online.

Skywatchers around North America will have a chance to see the Leonid meteor shower peak on Nov. 17. Since the moon will be ...

The idea of beating China back to the moon runs into the fact that the U.S. already did that, on July 20, 1969 during the mission of Apollo 11. On the other hand, that was then, more than 50 years ago ...