NASA today gave a team of researchers the green light to begin building instruments that will be launched on a satellite to scan and create high-resolution maps of water on the moon. In June 2019, ...

A NASA probe has started its mission to map the heliosphere, which is a huge protective bubble around the solar system that was created by the sun, the space agency announced on Monday. The space ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. NASA's SPHEREx mission is expected to map the entire sky four times over two years, offering a window into how the universe came ...

With its antenna now spinning at full speed, NASA’s new Soil Moisture Active Passive (SMAP) observatory has successfully re-tested its science instruments and generated its first global maps, a key ...

A new NASA observatory launched into space Tuesday on a mission that could help scientists unravel what happened in the first fractions of a second after the Big Bang. Subscribe to read this story ...

SAN DIEGO — Picture this: A powerful laser system in space, scanning Earth over and over again. That’s exactly what a team at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography is building after being selected ...

NASA’s Lunar Trailblazer is officially in Florida and integrated with a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket in anticipation of its launch into space later this month. The petite satellite is set to launch no ...

The Sun is an energetic star, constantly radiating energy and pumping streams of charged particles out into space. And while this solar wind can be dangerous in itself, without it, Earth and all the ...

NASA's SPHEREx mission is expected to map the entire sky four times over two years, offering a window into how the universe came to be. Former astronaut Mike Massimino breaks down NASA's latest ...