Where does all that space junk go? And what does climate change have to do with it? The answers are on this episode of The ...

Memorably, the northern lights were especially visible for skywatchers on the East Coast in late October 2024. Hues of pinks ...

Imminent loss of NASA's Aura and Canada's SCISAT will severely diminish scientists’ ability to monitor ozone-depleting substances in the stratosphere.

A pair of planetary scientists at the University of California, working with a colleague from the California Institute of ...

Scientists fear an 'irreplaceable' loss of key climate data as Trump cost-cutting plans target a key CO2 monitoring site in ...

Rocket launches can create eerie patterns in the sky, from undulating bright-blue spirals to glowing “jellyfish” blobs.

Right after launching, a bunch of satellites heading to join the megaconstellation looks like a string of moving stars going up in the sky. Within a week or so, they reach a higher elevation and are ...

When NASA’s Orion spacecraft shoots back into Earth’s atmosphere, after a visit around the moon next year, one of the Navy’s ...

A solar wind event from 2017 that hit Jupiter and compressed its magnetosphere created a hot region spanning half Jupiter's circumference.

Scientists now believe that solar bursts hit the largest planet of our solar system two to three times a month.

Webb first observed the region called Sagittarius C in 2023. Now researchers are now using those observations to study star formation in the wider area around the center of the Milky Way, known as the ...