A CubeSat built to measure solar irradiance matched established CERES climate instruments to within about 1 percent while ...

Four astronauts returned to Earth from the International Space Station on Thursday after hurrying there eight months ago to ...

Just two weeks after it was launched, the Copernicus Sentinel-3C satellite returned its first images and measurements from ...

The peak for Draconid meteor shower comes just before a rainy weekend for Western NC. Here's how to catch a glimpse.

Just because Google and Apple are now calling it Lake America doesn’t mean everyone has to. After President Donald Trump ...

A stunning compilation of views of Earth from the Tiangong space station. Credit: Space.com | footage courtesy: China Central ...

A coronal mass ejection left the sun Tuesday in the wake of a solar flare, which could mean displays of aurora on Friday, say ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. In a laboratory 2 kilometers underground, a crane lowers Matt Depatie, a detector technologist, through a hatch into a white-walled ...

Pastmaps is a website that lets you peel back the surface of a city and see what it looked like decades, sometimes even ...

The UN General Assembly has endorsed a non-binding, African-led resolution promoting equal-area map projections such as Equal Earth to better represent the size of continents.

The three cartographers who developed the Equal Earth map projection have agreed to provide scientific and technical support ...