NASA Earth Science Communications announced closure of The Earth Observer in December 2025. It preserves archives that document nearly 37 years of EOS missions and satellite data.

NASA said that by migrating the archives to the cloud, it will place NASA Earth observation data “close to compute,” and ...

Humans have a predilection for doomsday predictions. Witness the much-hyped technological terror of the Y2K, or year 2000, bug, which failed to crash critical systems as projected, or the apocalyptic ...

NASA’s Mars rover finds organic signals in mudstone that resemble microbial activity, sparking new debate over life on the ...

An Electron lifts off May 25 carrying the first of two NASA PREFIRE cubesats. Credit: Rocket Lab LOS ANGELES — Rocket Lab launched the first of two NASA Earth science cubesats on an Electron rocket ...

The Orbiting Carbon Observatory (OCO) 2 spacecraft is one of many science missions at NASA targeted for termination in the 2026 budget request. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech WASHINGTON — Comments by NASA’s ...

If NASA must pull back, Europe is ready to step up — and do so with open arms. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. As climate ...

The mystifying 3I/ATLAS interstellar comet is blazing toward Earth and will soon come as close to our planet as it ever will.

The NASA Artemis II mission, set to lift off as soon as February, will mark the first time astronauts have aimed to venture beyond near-Earth orbit since 1972.