Artemis II’s journey around the moon, scheduled to conclude on Friday, has delivered stunning new images of our home world ...

The Science Mission Directorate (SMD) of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) conducts both Earth and space science missions. The latter type encompasses missions in planetary ...

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — Sometimes to truly study something up close, you have to take a step back. That’s what Andrea Donnellan does. An expert in earth sciences and seismology, she gets much of her ...

NOTICE: The project that is the subject of this report was approved by the Governing Board of the National Research Council, whose members are drawn from the councils of the National Academy of ...

A recent SpaceNews opinion article argued that it is time to “take astronomy off Earth.” The suggestion is straightforward: If satellite constellations and commercial space activity threaten ...

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Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I cover the future of astronautics and space technologies. That visibility naturally invites a follow-on question: what comes next ...

NEW ORLEANS — A proposal by the Trump administration to dismantle a leading atmospheric science center would also have implications for space science. The White House announced Dec. 16 it would direct ...

Earth’s core may contain up to 45 oceans’ worth of hydrogen, a new study finds—an estimate that suggests that the planet formed from a gas-and-dust disk that was rich in the universe’s lightest ...

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER — The U.S. Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation announced that it passed the NASA Authorization Act of 2026, which extends the operations of the International ...