Though 2025 won't mark the return of astronauts into deep space as NASA had hoped, launchpads still will be scorching-hot from a procession of robotic spacecraft attempting to land on the moon . How ...

The year easily beat out the previous record holder, 2023, for the warmest year on record globally, according to data ...

Last year was the warmest on record and the first time the average temperature surpassed the 1.5-degree Celsius threshold ...

Rising just before sunset on January 13, the Full Wolf Moon will be up all night, and will slip below the western horizon only after the Sun rises. Plus, if you watch closely throughout the night, you ...

Floods and devastating storms gave way to heatwaves in a year that broke all previous temperature records, according to ...

Science Team Meeting (STM) took place from April 2–4, 2024 at the Marriott Washingtonian Center in Gaithersburg, MD. During ...

This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image reveals a tiny patch of sky in the constellation Hydra. The stars and galaxies ...

NASA's LEXI instrument is set to land on the moon's surface sometime this month. Using X-ray sensors, the device will watch ...

Around the globe, Associated Press photographers in 2024 documented what scientists on Friday said was the hottest year on ...

A spacecraft has beamed back some of the best close-up photos yet of Mercury's north pole. The European and Japanese robotic ...

See 11 of the week’s most interesting images from around the world, as selected by Washington Post photo editors.

The lights appear within what is known as an aurora oval, a belt that roughly rings the Earth’s geomagnetic poles, said ...