There are about 15,000 satellites orbiting the Earth. Most of them, like the International Space Station and the Hubble ...

Earth/space science teachers educate students on the four basic areas of scientific study classified as part of earth science: oceanography, astronomy, meteorology and geology. Earth scientists play a ...

NASA said that by migrating the archives to the cloud, it will place NASA Earth observation data “close to compute,” and ...

Space has captured human imagination for centuries. Yet along with our fascination, countless misconceptions have spread like ...

Rogue planets — worlds that drift through space alone without a star — largely remain a mystery to scientists. Now, ...

NASA’s Earth Observing System provides nearly 30 years of continuous, high-quality measurements of Earth’s land, oceans, atmosphere, and ice, supporting climate research and long-term environmental ...

Researchers are developing a real-life tractor beam, with the goal of pulling defunct satellites out of geostationary orbit ...

Humanity’s next great expansion is no longer a thought experiment. It is unfolding in real time in orbit, around the Moon and ...

From crewed lunar voyages to flight tests of fully reusable rockets and launches of new orbital telescopes studying the outer ...

Cosmic “touchdown airbursts” — explosions of comets or asteroids above Earth’s surface — may be far more common and ...

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

NASA Earth Science Communications announced closure of The Earth Observer in December 2025. It preserves archives that document nearly 37 years of EOS missions and satellite data.