Read the story of these planet-hunting pioneers, who went on to find 70 of the first 100 exoplanets ever discovered. The official number of exoplanets — planets outside our solar system — confirmed by ...

It is with a heavy heart that I announce that NASA Earth Science Communications has directed The Earth Observer to conduct an ...

Astronomers using Hubble imaged the largest protoplanetary disk ever observed circling a young star. The disk is nicknamed “Dracula’s Chivito.” ...

NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has directly imaged similar catastrophic collisions in a nearby planetary system around another star, Fomalhaut.

NASA’s Europa Clipper mission observed the interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS on Nov. 6 from a distance of about 102 million miles (164 million kilometers). Captured ...

For the first time, astronomers using NASA’s Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope have traced a budding outflow of gas from a cluster of young stars in our galaxy ...

The U.S. Geological Survey, in cooperation with NASA, has named the new Landsat Science Team that will support the world’s longest-running Earth observation mission for a planned 2026-2030 term.

Winds, waves, and ice near a remote town on the Chukchi Peninsula have sculpted a series of coastal inshore lagoons that resemble an icon of winter.

The right combination of conditions allowed this distinctive low cloud to form in California’s Central Valley for weeks.

Researchers using NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope have detected the strongest evidence yet for an atmosphere on a rocky planet outside our solar system, as NASA leads the world in exploring the ...

Astronaut photograph ISS072-E-807123 was acquired on March 19, 2025, with a Nikon Z9 digital camera using a focal length of 28 millimeters. It is provided by the ISS Crew Earth Observations Facility ...