NASA’s Voyager 1 spacecraft has been breaking distance records for decades. Launched almost 50 years ago, it became the ...

The rover landed on Mars in February 2021 and has been exploring Jezero Crater, searching for evidence of ancient microbial ...

The Arctic Ocean’s ice cover bottomed out at 1.78 million square miles (4.6 million square kilometers) on September 12, 2026, tying 2008, 2010 and 2025 for the 10th-lowest summer minimum since ...

Photographs of planets can fool you. A close crop of swirling cloud bands or a patch of rusty dust can look like almost anything, and many of us only recognize a planet when we see the whole disk ...

Rocket Lab’s out-of-the-blue protest against NASA’s commissioning Blue Origin to develop the Mars Telecommunications Network could torpedo the 2028 launch of the orbiter.

The potentially record El Niño developing in the Pacific shares an important geographic feature with two prior very strong El Niños that drenched California.

A new satellite altimetry and modeling framework delivers global estimates of river discharge and mean depth at more than ...

A stronger polar vortex is developing over the Arctic. Here's what it could mean for winter, including the role of a powerful El Niño.

High tide conditions cause minor coastal flooding in Coronado on Oct. 9, 2026. Staff photo by Julieta Soto. Coronado officials are gearing up for a Super El Niño that has already begun to impact the ...

A phenomenon rarer than a solar eclipse and more powerful than any single storm system is unfolding this fall, and NASA is ...

Kazakhstan’s Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Artificial Intelligence and Digital Development Zhaslan Madiyev and ...

The captivating shapes of wind-carved crags called yardangs are revealed in this zoomed-in crop of a broader panorama ...