The Rubin Observatory issues rapid alerts for changing celestial objects, enabling global scientists to detect supernovae, asteroids, and variable stars within minutes of observation.

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The world’s largest climate modeling initiative is quietly ramping up its next project, but U.S. participation is a wild card ...

Congress is pushing to extend the International Space Station's life by two years, to give commercial outposts more time to ...

On International Women’s Day, it’s worth pausing to look up, not just at the sky, but at the women who helped us understand ...

Look up on a clear night and you'll see the streaks of our new space age. What you don't see is the growing fallout for the atmosphere that keeps us alive.

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration led no shortage of scientific breakthroughs in 2025: from launching satellites with new instruments to advance space weather observations to deploying ...