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Using satellite data, NASA brings an interest in bees back down to Earth.

Earth’s atmosphere may give our Sun its yellow appearance, but looks can be deceiving.

Spacecraft must wait for navigation commands from Earth rather than making decisions on-board in real-time.

NASA will send commands to the spacecraft, receive data, and monitor Orion during different phases of its mission.

What if a giant asteroid were on a collision course with Earth?

Our Moon spends almost as much time in the daytime sky as in the night.

For more than 50 years, NASA has been providing data on Earth’s land, water, ice, and atmosphere. Now a new era of Earth science has begun.

Called the front page of the Internet, Reddit could be used to help NASA locate landslides almost as soon as they happen.

Each year strong winds carry more than a billion metric tons of mineral dust through the atmosphere.

Researchers are breaking aircraft structures to understand how new materials will hold up in flight.

As Artemis astronauts prepare for their missions, a new generation may wake-up to music that is as much a part of their nature as their drive to explore.

Power lines and wires around houses are dangerous for low-flying aircraft.

For long-duration missions, astronauts are going to need a local source for food. But where do space farmers get dirt in space?

The Sea Level Projection Tool is just one of the online resources available from NASA’s Earth Science Division to help us better understand our planet.

Power systems that utilize spinning rotors take advantage of dense atmospheres, utilizing drag forces to generate electrical power.

Despite skepticism from colleagues, Robert Goddard believed that liquid propellants offered advantages over solid fuel.

Critical signals for communications and navigations, like radio and GPS, pass through the ionosphere.

The nation’s investments in space technology enable NASA to achieve its current and future missions.

While the rovers study dust storms, winds, and clouds of dry ice, there simply is not enough liquid water in the atmosphere to make a rainbow on Mars.

Happy equinox, Earthlings! It’s the first day of fall.