A suitcase-sized quantum sensor could soon reveal hidden water, oil, and even underground mountains—all by tracking how atoms ...

Scientists at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics are leading a major part of NASA’s new SPHEREx mission to study how water and other molecules form in space and may reach planets like ...

Last May, European and Japanese space agencies launched EarthCARE, a revolutionary satellite capable of capturing unprecedented detail of inner cloud workings. In orbit it joins PACE -- a cutting-edge ...

The Lyrid meteor shower is about to reach its peak activity for April. Here's when and how to see it, along with a cloud forecast.

Using NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope, scientists have detailed the gas and dust expelled by a dying star in NGC 1514. Its ...

"The Small Magellanic Cloud is less rich in elements heavier ... studies the universe in mostly visible light from low-Earth orbit. Credit: NASA The cluster, full of more than 2,500 newborn ...

Weather permitting, SpaceX will launch a Falcon 9 rocket and Dragon spacecraft from NASA ... orbit. Rockets launch from Kennedy Space Center and Cape Canaveral, Florida, in Brevard County, which is an ...

NASA has defined asteroids as small, rocky objects that orbit the sun like planets, but they are much smaller in size. Most ...

The clouds put a damper on seeing the ... line up in a specific way in space. According to NASA, a solar eclipse happens when the moon's orbit aligns with Earth, and it passes between the sun ...