NASA has selected two Earth science missions for development, one focused on studying the atmosphere and the other on terrestrial ecosystems and ice.
On Jan. 31, 1958, Explorer 1 became the first satellite launched by the United States. Its primary science instrument, a cosmic ray detector, was designed to measure the radiation environment in Earth ...
Officials have directed the space agency to pause funds for a host of science missions the White House originally pushed to cancel in its 2026 budget request, according to a letter sent to the ...
Two next-generation satellite missions announced Thursday will help NASA better understand Earth and improve capabilities to ...
NASA has selected UC San Diego's Scripps Institution of Oceanography to lead the Earth Dynamics Geodetic Explorer (EDGE) ...
“What keeps me up at night is the asteroids we don’t know about," said NASA's planetary defense chief.
The Orbiting Carbon Observatory (OCO) 2 spacecraft is one of many science missions at NASA targeted for termination in the 2026 budget request. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech WASHINGTON — Comments by NASA’s ...
"We don’t know where they are,” said NASA’s planetary defense officer Kelly Fast at the AAAS conference in Arizona this week.