China's reusable Shenlong space plane launched on its fourth space mission earlier this month. What is it doing in Earth ...

Reusable launch vehicles — such as SpaceX’s Starship and Blue Origin’s New Glenn, Stoke Space’s Nova, Rocket Lab’s Neutron and Relativity Space’s Terran R — are revolutionizing the cost and frequency ...

The views of Earth from the far stretches of space are some of the most incredible sights. From capturing weather patterns and the grand expanse of blue oceans below to the great continents that shape ...

When we look up at the night sky and see a satellite glide past, we might not consider climate change or the ozone layer. Space may feel separate from the environmental systems that sustain life on ...

There’s a thin layer of human-made stuff enrobing the planet. A data dive into the anthroposphere. Earth’s a medium-size rock ...

The space economy today is best understood not as a single industry but as a layered system, one that begins in Earth’s orbit, extends to the moon and beyond and increasingly delivers intelligence ...

NASA invites the public to join the Space Umbrella project, analyzing MMS data to study magnetic reconnection and solar wind interactions affecting space weather and technology.

Our magnetosphere plays the role of gatekeeper, repelling unwanted energy that's harmful to life on Earth, trapping most of it a safe distance from Earth's surface in twin doughnut-shaped zones called ...

The first metal thingamajig ever 3D printed in space has landed on Earth, where European Space Agency (ESA) scientists are now studying it. In a press release, the ESA announced that the object — a ...

It's the year 2012 in the newest 10-episode offering which kicks off March 27, 2026, and a heated rivalry is brewing between Earth and Mars that is quickly bubbling over into inte ...

In a new book, NASA astrobiologist Caleb Scharf says the fate of life on Earth may hinge on leaving our planet behind The multibillion-year story of life on Earth is defined by a handful of epochal ...