Earth just got a new tag-along in space — a little asteroid named 2025 PN7. NASA confirmed this week that the rock, discovered by the University of Hawaii, is officially a “quasi-moon” — a rare type ...

Cyclone Global Navigation Satellite System (CYGNSS) measures wind speeds over Earth's oceans with seven microsatellites. Credit: NASA Langley video capture SAN FRANCISCO – NASA’s Earth Science ...

The Orbiting Carbon Observatory (OCO) 2 spacecraft is one of many science missions at NASA targeted for termination in the 2026 budget request. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech WASHINGTON — Comments by NASA’s ...

NASA's director of its Earth Science Division, Karen St. Germain, said the NOAA is a principal partner in the mission, and the data is expected could help predict hurricane intensification and track.

NASA’s Earth-observing satellites provide societally important data and demonstrate transformative applications. The need for more data and better scientific information on Earth’s interacting systems ...

NASA is now publicly distributing science-quality data from its newest Earth-observing satellite, providing first-of-their-kind measurements of ocean health, air quality, and the effects of a changing ...

More detailed climate data could better predict whose home is better protected from a potential fire, flood or other disaster ...

Understanding the complex, changing planet on which we live, how it supports life, and how human activities affect its ability to do so in the future is one of the greatest intellectual challenges ...