Space & Planetary Science

Credit: Rajdeep Dasgupta HOUSTON -- (Sept. 5, 2016) -- Research by Rice University Earth scientists suggests that virtually all of...

In the mid-1800s, astronomers surveying the night sky in the Southern Hemisphere noticed something strange: Over the course of a...

Credit: NASA/SDO Early in the morning of Sept. 1, 2016, NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory, or SDO, caught both Earth and...

Although Tropical Storm Madeline weakened to a depression, infrared satellite imagery showed a small burst of strength in the storm...

Tropical Storm Lionrock was moving south of Japan when NASA's Terra satellite passed overhead and looked at the large storm...

New Haven, Conn. - The search for habitable, alien worlds needs to make room for a second "Goldilocks," according to...

NASA's Terra satellite captured an infrared image of the developing Tropical Storm 10W in the Northwestern Pacific Ocean near Guam....

The distant planet GJ 1132b intrigued astronomers when it was discovered last year. Located just 39 light-years from Earth, it...

For only the second time in a year, a NASA camera aboard the Deep Space Climate Observatory (DSCOVR) satellite captured...