The U.S. government agency said the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) captured it on Nov. 5, 2022. It was among the first ...

Snow has a "high albedo," meaning it reflects a lot of sunlight back into space. When there is no snow, the sunlight is ...

NASA has selected nine companies to develop concepts that could aid agency science missions to Mars down the road.The agency ...

Officials with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration will pay nine companies between $200,000 and $300,000 each ...

A blurry photo posted online in April 2024 shows a celestial body that looks like Earth but is actually Saturn's largest moon ...

NASA has selected nine U.S. companies to conduct preliminary concept studies aimed at exploring how commercial services can ...

In a separate section, the study evaluates the possibility of using special color pigments and surface materials to improve the albedo (i.e., reflectivity) of roofs, façades, pavements and roads. This ...

More recently, spy satellite cameras have dramatically increased in capability and will only continue to advance.

Mars exploration has been always been the exclusive purview of national space agencies, but NASA is trying to change that, ...

The number of satellites in orbit as of May 1, 2023, has grown to a total of 7,560 with the U.S. accounting for 5,184.

Black carbon (BC) is the result of incomplete combustion of fossil fuels and biomass, with strong light absorption. It is ...

Antarctic sea ice has been disappearing over the last several summers. Now, climate scientists are wondering whether it will ...