Earth's shape can be tested in surprisingly simple ways without relying on space photographs. The strongest part of the ...

An astronaut aboard the International Space Station photographed a remarkable formation in Madagascar that looks surprisingly ...

Sunlight overwhelms their faint glow, hiding auroras on Earth’s daytime side from ordinary cameras and human eyes. But a new ...

Each year, Space Science Week brings together leaders across the space science disciplines to explore the latest developments and discuss the future of the field from a variety of perspectives, from ...

Solar emissions exert 'drag' on space junk orbiting Earth. From historical measurements across a period of 36 years, researchers have now shown that space junk begins to fall down much faster once the ...

NASA’s SpaceX Crew-12 astronauts have returned to Earth after 237 days in space, traveling more than 100 million miles and completing over 3,792 orbits while conducting research to prepare for future ...

This remarkable view of Earth shows the northern lights encircling Earth.

Space does not begin at a clean edge where Earth’s air abruptly stops. The atmosphere thins continuously, molecule by molecule, until its outermost hydrogen becomes almost indistinguishable from the ...

Nearly 1,000 Earth and planetary explorers from the greater Houston area attended Rice University’s K-12 Earth and planetary open house at Rice Memorial Center’s Grand Hall May 3. The event was held ...

Earth and Space Science Informatics brings together data-intensive methods, computational platforms and domain expertise to analyse, visualise and model phenomena ranging from planetary interiors and ...