The current strong El Niño brewing in the Pacific Ocean shows no signs of waning, as seen in the latest satellite image from the U.S./European Ocean Surface Topography Mission (OSTM)/Jason-2 mission.
New radar images show asteroid 2003 SD220, which will safely fly past Earth on Dec. 24.
New radar images show asteroid 2003 SD220, which will safely fly past Earth on Dec. 24.
The Department of Energy, with NASA funding, has completed the first U.S. production in nearly 30 years of a specialized fuel to power future deep space missions.
After thorough examination, NASA managers have decided to suspend the planned March 2016 launch of the Interior Exploration using Seismic Investigations Geodesy and Heat Transport (InSight) mission.
NASA's Dawn spacecraft, cruising in its lowest and final orbit at dwarf planet Ceres, has delivered the first images from its best-ever viewpoint.
The amount of methane escaping from the ground during the Arctic's long cold period each year and entering Earth's atmosphere is likely much higher than current estimates.
NASA's Cassini spacecraft has begun transmitting data and images from the mission's final close flyby of Saturn's active moon Enceladus, which took place on Saturday, Dec. 19.
The Euclid mission has passed its preliminary design review, clearing the way to start construction.
Radar imagery of asteroid 1998 WT24 has been obtained by NASA's Goldstone Solar System Radar.
At recently studied sites, Mars Curiosity has found higher silica concentrations than at sites visited earlier in its Martian travels.
The donut-shaped disks of material that feed growing black holes may not be as smooth as once thought.
NASA's next Mars spacecraft has arrived at Vandenberg Air Force Base, California, for final preparations before a launch scheduled in March 2016 and a landing on Mars six months later.
NASA technology is all around us, turning trash into oil, saving women from a deadly complication of childbirth, and putting the bubbles in beer.
Climate change is rapidly warming lakes around the world, threatening freshwater supplies and ecosystems, according to a new NASA and National Science Foundation-funded study.
A thrilling chapter in solar system exploration will soon conclude, as NASA's Saturn-orbiting Cassini spacecraft makes its final close flyby of the ocean-bearing moon Enceladus.
The Gorkha, Nepal earthquake in 2015 triggered far fewer landslides and much less damage to glacial lakes than expected; while medieval times earthquakes caused massive landscape changes.
The fantasy creations of the "Star Wars" universe are strikingly similar to real planets in our own Milky Way galaxy.
People the world over are feeling, or will soon feel, the effects of the strongest El Niño event since 1997-98, currently unfolding in the eastern equatorial Pacific Ocean.
NASA data are helping scientists learn more about some of El Niño's key impacts around the globe.
Alteration of minerals by water may have been common on Mars into the second half of the planet's age, a new analysis of observations by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter suggests.
Missing Water Mystery Solved in Vast Exoplanet Survey
The Curiosity rover is examining the first active sand dunes ever studied up close on any planet besides Earth.
A star the size of Jupiter has a raging, giant storm
Ceres reveals some of its well-kept secrets in two new studies in the journal Nature, thanks to data from NASA's Dawn spacecraft.
Scientists on NASA's Juno mission are preparing to receive some stunning images of Jupiter, and they need your help.
JPL CubeSat clean room is doing big things for space explorations smallest inhabitants.
A key science instrument for NASA's InSight spacecraft, being prepared for a March 2016 launch, is experiencing a leak in the vacuum container carrying its main sensors.
Astronomers harnessing the combined power of NASA's Hubble and Spitzer space telescopes have found the faintest object ever seen in the early universe.
The LISA Pathfinder spacecraft is on its way to space, having successfully launched from Kourou, French Guiana (Dec. 3 local time/Dec. 2 PST).
A method for evaluating thermophysical properties of metal alloys Simulation of the solidification of metal alloys, a key step in certain i...
