The glacier in southeastern Svalbard pulses with the changing seasons, speeding up and slowing its flow toward the sea.

An ecologist, a volcanologist, and a chemist walk into a forest… it sounds like the beginning of a bad joke, but this very real collaboration between scientists from NASA and the Universidad de Costa ...

While a part of the United States braved extreme winter cold, January 2026 brought sweltering summer conditions to many parts of Australia.

This artist’s concept shows a thick shell of gas and dust that has been expelled from a massive star’s outer layers as its core collapses after running out of fuel. At the center, a hot, dense ball of ...

On Feb. 11, NASA’s Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory temporarily suspended most science operations in an effort to reduce atmospheric drag and slow the ...

The thermal infrared capabilities of an imager on NASA’s Terra satellite have been shut off and will no longer collect data, more than 25 years after the ...

This stunning Hubble image reveals a dramatic interplay of light and shadow in the Egg Nebula, sculpted by freshly ejected stardust.

This exoplanetary encyclopedia — continuously updated, with more than 6,000 entries — combines interactive 3D models and detailed data on all confirmed exoplanets. When you select a planet’s name, see ...

A sunny day in early 2026 revealed the remnants of a winter storm on Arizona’s high desert—and produced a striking, if somewhat puzzling, display of light and shadow in the Grand Canyon. An astronaut ...

On the Moon, snow does not fall. Thunder never rolls. No clouds form in the pitch-black sky. “Weather” on the Moon means something completely different than it does on Earth.