A suitcase-sized quantum sensor could soon reveal hidden water, oil, and even underground mountains—all by tracking how atoms ...

NASA's ER-2 science aircraft flew instruments designed to improve satellite data products and Earth science observations.

A 2014 satellite image captured a rare glimpse of a massive, eerily circular ring of clouds that formed slap-bang in the ...

The Webb telescope — a scientific collaboration between NASA, ESA, and the Canadian Space Agency — is designed to peer into ...

Scientists have discovered a massive alcohol cloud located 10,000 light-years away in the Aquila constellation. This cloud is ...

Over 4.6 billion years ago, Earth took shape from a spinning cloud of dust and gas surrounding the young sun. Tiny particles ...

There is a large diversity in the chemical composition of astronomical objects such as planets, comets, circumstellar ...

The micromoon refers to a full moon that rises when the celestial body is the farthest from Earth, which NASA states is about ...

The building blocks of life on Earth may have been fueled by tiny sparks ... It's similar to the process that creates lightning in clouds, but on a miniature scale. Electrical charges build ...

We haven’t figured out exactly what gives them their shape, determines altitude – or makes them rain when they do. But ...

A 2022 satellite photo shows smoke rising from a caldera on Tofua, highlighting the "looming threat" of the volcanic island.