EARTH

NASA's Ingenuity helicopter took to the Martian skies again on Tuesday (March 21), making its 48th flight above the floor of Jezero Crater.

Asteroid 2023 DZ2 will zip between Earth and the moon's orbit on March 25 and may be visible with the right telescope.

The space rock's anticipated trajectory places it at about half the distance to the moon, so people with telescopes may be able to see it from Earth.

A 'hole' in the sun's upper atmosphere may soon generate another geomagnetic storm here on Earth, creating auroras in places farther from the poles than usual.

JWST just peered directly into the atmosphere of the giant exoplanet VHS 1256 b and found a roiling world with clouds made of silicates, similar to sand on Earth.

A giant coronal hole, spotted Monday, is releasing rapid solar winds expected to reach Earth on Friday, March 24, causing more vibrant aurora borealis.

A video of a fireball streaking across the sky likely shows a Chinese rocket section that burned up in the atmosphere above Texas on March 7.

A camera aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket caught Earth as a beautiful blue marble in a striking new video filmed from orbit.

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope team released even more dazzling new images of star-studded clusters light-years away from Earth, including Messier 14 and Messier 7.

Four big asteroids hit Earth in the past million years, according to a new study, suggesting the space-rock danger is higher than thought. But not everyone agrees.

An organic compound that's part of the RNA molecule has been discovered in samples from the asteroid Ryugu, suggesting the stuff of life came from space.

A 200-foot asteroid discovered in February is expected to fly past Earth at about half the distance of the Moon on Saturday, posing no threat to the planet, this time.

A stricken Surface Water and Ocean Topography (SWOT) instrument is back online, but NASA officials did not disclose a cause for the issue during commissioning.

A new method could allow astronomers to assess exoplanets' likely subsurface water stores, aiding the search for worlds capable of supporting life as we know it.

Astronomers have completed the first map of water distribution on the moon, including that more water is found in shaded lunar regions than in sunlit ones.

Spring has sprung: Monday marks the first day of spring in the Northern Hemisphere.

An image from the Hubble Space Telescope captures an irregular spiral galaxy known as NGC 5486, which lies close to the much larger and well-known Pinwheel Galaxy.

On March 20 at 5:24 p.m. EDT (2:24 p.m. PDT) the spring (or vernal) equinox occurs as the sun's rays shine directly down on the equator.

Aurora hunters claim that, to look to the night sky in search of these beautiful displays, the dates around the equinoxes are the best.

A newfound, highly adaptable bacterium shows the kind of diverse life to look for on Europa or Enceladus, astronomers say.

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has dazzled us plenty already, but the best is yet to come from the observatory, mission team members say.

Common Sense Media's guide to this week's family movies and TV shows.

The USPS plans to mark the upcoming plunge to Earth by the OSIRIS-REx capsule carrying the largest sample ever collected from an asteroid.

Research will look at how to provide energy allowing humans live and work on the Moon.

Film critic Peter Travers shares his review of "Shazam! Fury of the Gods," which arrives in theaters Friday.

The near-Earth asteroid 2023 EY will pass within 149,000 miles of Earth tonight (March 16), and you can watch it live thanks to a free telescope livestream.

University of Arizona students' inflatable "beach ball" antenna prototype could change the way small satellites send data back to Earth.

A new NASA report evaluates the costs and benefits of various space debris removal efforts for the estimated 100 trillion bits of space junk in orbit.

An asteroid that was initially given 1-in-600 chance of wiping out an entire city on Valentine's Day 2046 is now expected to likely pass us without incident.

A fresh round of science payloads was sent to the International Space Station to explore topics such as how to minimize microbial contamination inside spacecraft.

The spacesuits worn by the first woman and next American astronaut to walk on the moon will remain on a SpaceX lunar lander rather than come back to Earth.

With the unveiling of its touring exhibit “Apollo: When We Went to the Moon” this weekend, the folks at the Virginia Museum of History & Culture will show that history

An explosion on the the sun spewed 'dark plasma' into space that resulted in a moderate G2-class geomagnetic storm on Wednesday (March 15).

A SpaceX Dragon cargo capsule carrying 3 tons of supplies will arrive at the International Space Station Thursday morning (March 16), and you can watch it live.

For the first time, a space-born smog sensor will be able to provide data on the distribution of air pollutants over America non-stop and in real time.

The probability that a newly-discovered asteroid will hit Earth on Valentine's Day in 2046 has dropped. The chance the asteroid hits the planet was already unlikely.

Pentagon officials said in a draft document co-authored by a Harvard scientist, that a mothership could send mini probes to planets similar to missions conducted by NASA.

The Long March 2D second stage is believed to have reentered over an unpopulated part of Texas on March 7 and so far there are no reports of injuries or damage to property. Sadly, as more rockets are sent to space and as rules around these matters remain vague, it’s the new normal we have to deal with.

Astronomers spotted a massive coronal mass ejection (CME) expanding its ethereal wings as it barrelled out of the sun and toward Mercury.

The second stage of a Chinese Long March 2D rocket that launched last year reentered Earth's atmosphere on March 7 as it passed over Texas.

China launched a pair of Tianhui cartography satellites on March 9 to boost the country's Earth observation and mapping capabilities.

Astronauts have to deal with growing amounts of space junk in orbit, but there are procedures on the International Space Station in case of trouble.

A new TikTok trend suggests that users can compare the phases of the moon on the day they are born to determine if they are soulmates.

Russia is investigating the possibility that a manufacturing defect caused two of its spacecraft to spring coolant leaks in a two-month span recently.

SpaceX's Crew-5 astronauts have returned to Earth. The four astronauts on the Dragon capsule Endurance splashed down March 11 to end a 157-day trip to the International Space Station.

Four space station astronauts are back on Earth after a quick SpaceX flight home.

A newly-discovered bright comet visible to naked eyes – even from the suburbs of larger cities – will whiz past Earth next year.

Less than two weeks after it was discovered, asteroid 2023 DW sits at the top of the "risk list" maintained by the European Space Agency.

NASA's Ingenuity Mars helicopter recently took to the skies for its 45th flight, photographing a Red Planet sunset in the process.

The International Space Station fired its engines for more than six minutes to maneuver out of the path of an Earth observation satellite early Monday, according to NASA.

Japanese astronomer Daichi Fujii captured the telltale flash of a meteorite impacting the moon, causing a brief flash on our celestial neighbor's nightside.

Forms of oxygen created by living organisms can be found in space around our planet, a new study has revealed, hinting at a potential new method for tracing life on exoplanets.

The cherry trees in the nation’s capital are confused by Earth’s changing climate, with the iconic blossoms appearing earlier than expected because of the unusually warm winter.

The record-breaking heat Earth endured during the summer of 2022 will be repeated without a robust international effort to address climate change, scientists are warning.

A comet that hasn’t been seen since the ice age will be visible in the northern hemisphere in January and early February.

Twenty years ago, NASA’s Columbia space shuttle crashed to the Earth, killing all seven astronauts on board and sending debris scattered across 200 miles. San Antonio Fire Department Chief Charles Hood was deployed to search for that crucial debris.

A new study using artificial intelligence finds that the world will likely warm a few more tenths of a degrees within the next 10 to 12 years and breach a key climate change threshold.

A comet is streaking back our way after 50,000 years.

An asteroid the size of a delivery truck will whip past Earth on Thursday night, one of the closest encounters ever recorded.

The Bulletin of Atomic Scientists says the world is closer to Armageddon than it has ever been.

The comet is the expected to make its closest pass of Earth sometime between Feb. 1 and 2, possibly even sooner sometime at the end of January.

Scientists at NASA have discovered a new Earth-sized planet orbiting the habitable zone of its star.

After almost 40 years circling Earth, a NASA satellite has plunged harmlessly through the atmosphere.

A United Nations scientific report says Earth's protective ozone layer is slowly but noticeably healing.

A U.S.-French satellite that will map almost all of the world's surface water has rocketed into orbit.

NASA’s Orion capsule is back from the moon.

NASA's Orion capsule is now circling the moon in an orbit stretching tens of thousands of miles.

A new Pew Research Center report explores how religion in the U.S. intersects with views on the environment and climate change.

Wind chill was invented on the continent of Antarctica in the 1940s, but really gained traction in the 1970s.

A satellite intended to improve weather forecasting and an experimental inflatable heat shield to protect spacecraft entering atmospheres have been launched into space from California.

This week's total lunar eclipse is the last one for three years.

The United Nations' weather agency says the state of Earth's climate is bad and getting worse faster than before, especially with sea level rise accelerating.

Astronomers have discovered the closest known black hole to Earth, just 1,600 light-years away.

View a list of some of the events going on in San Antonio and the surrounding areas in November.

A total lunar eclipse will be visible in parts of North America on Nov. 8, including San Antonio.

Scientists use old fashioned detective work to figure out that humans are responsible for climate change.

As kids, we often heard the common myth that if you dug a hold deep enough, you might end up in China. The truth is that we'd end up somewhere entirely different.

Just how does climate change work.

The ozone hole over Antarctica got bigger this year, which is unusual.

NASA says a spacecraft that plowed into a small, harmless asteroid millions of miles away last month succeeded in shifting its orbit.

It’s a question that might start a household debate; what can be recycled and what can’t?

A NASA spacecraft has rammed an asteroid in an unprecedented test to see if a potentially menacing space rock could be knocked off course.

Stargazers are in for a treat Monday night as Jupiter reaches opposition and makes its closest approach to Earth in the last six decades.

Australian iron ore miner Fortescue Metals Group has announced a $6.2 billion plan to eliminate fossil fuels and carbon emissions from its operations by the end of the decade.

Our military is known to take on battles by land, sea, and air but there’s a force of men and women who have been called to protect a frontier that exists far beyond earth.

The British environmental scientist whose influential Gaia theory sees the Earth as a living organism gravely imperiled by human activity has died on his 103rd birthday.

A Chinese cargo spacecraft that serviced the country's permanent orbiting space station has largely burned up on reentering the atmosphere.

The bright streak of light was probably caused by space junk falling into Earth's atmosphere

One of The Chainsmokers’ latest hits is “High” and they’re hoping to live up to their lyrics.

NASA astronauts will go back to riding Russian rockets under a new agreement.

Every day billions of people depend on wild flora and fauna to obtain food, medicine and energy.

NASA says contact has been restored with a spacecraft headed to the moon to test out a lopsided lunar orbit.

A satellite the size of a microwave oven successfully broke free from its orbit around Earth and is headed toward the moon.

NASA wants to experiment with a new orbit around the moon that it hopes to use in the coming years to once again land astronauts on the lunar surface.

MSNBC says that journalist Alex Wagner will take over Rachel Maddow's prime-time slot four nights a week, beginning in August.

The second supermoon of the year will peak on Tuesday.

A federal science agency says that levels of the main global warming gas have shot past a key milestone.

But compared to recent times, exactly how much have activities such as recycling, dieting or using electric vehicles changed or evolved?

Clear skies in San Antonio provided an unobstructed view of the astronomical event.

Earth -- isn’t it a great place to live?