The ice giant officially joins the lineup of planets with auroras, completing the set of all eight planets in the Solar ...

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The ringed gas giant Saturn has officially replaced Jupiter as the planet in our solar system with the most moons. The International Astronomical Union officially recognized 128 new moons orbiting ...

NASA has abruptly closed its chief-scientist office, along with 2 other offices, firing 23 employees. The 10 March action leaves the agency without a way of feeding independent science advice to ...

NASA told its staff Monday that the space agency will start cutting its ranks − including the office of its chief scientist − as part of a "broader governmentwide restructuring effort.

"EZIE is the first mission dedicated exclusively to studying the electrojets," Larry Kepko, an EZIE mission scientist at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Maryland, said in a statement.

Now, NASA has a plan to study these powerfully disruptive currents, with hopes of managing their potential effects. In March, the EZIE (Electrojet Zeeman Imaging Explorer) mission will launch ...

We will examine Jupiter's magnetic field, core, bands, aurora, atmosphere, storms and clouds. Voting ends in Greenland election dominated by Trump's control pledge No Black model got a Vogue cover ...

That legacy now fuels a second space age, where a wave of private space companies — SpaceX, Blue Origin, and others — join NASA’s Artemis missions in pushing boundaries. The Space Coast is ...

Among other changes, Vanessa Wyche, who previously led Johnson Space Center, has been named NASA's acting associate administrator. NASA continues to reshape its leadership tier. The agency ...

In March, NASA plans to launch its EZIE (Electrojet Zeeman Imaging Explorer) mission to learn more about these powerful currents, in the hopes of ultimately mitigating the effects of such space ...