I n March 1872, Congress designated Yellowstone “a public park or pleasuring-ground for the benefit and enjoyment of the people.” It was the first national park of its kind. From there, a ...

2024 YR4 may not make catastrophic history, but it did set a new record for the JWST as the smallest object ever targeted by ...

This stunning aerial shot highlights the "looming threat" of a volcanic island in Tonga, which could violently explode in the future. The island also has a colorful origin story in Tongan ...

Get Instant Summarized Text (Gist) A new thermal imaging system has been developed to accurately measure vital signs such as heart rate, respiration, and body temperature without contact. This ...

Last week, astronomers unveiled exciting new images of planets in the HR 8799 and 51 Eridani star systems — and it was all thanks to a creative use of the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST).

What can a sample return mission from Jupiter's volcanic moon, Io, teach scientists about planetary and satellite (moon) ...

the same area of the sky is also captured in the bottom three images. NASA/JPL-Caltech A brand new NASA space observatory, SPHEREx, has taken its first test images a few weeks after its launch on ...

Shortly after it was discovered, astronomers calculated that the asteroid had a 1-in-83 chance of hitting Earth in 2032 — ...

The technology could open new possibilities for early disease detection. Postdoctoral scholar Dingding Han adjusts a thermal camera capturing an image of Ph.D. student Corey Zheng. Using an advanced ...

Okjökull was a dome-shaped glacier situated around the summit crater on Ok (pronounced Auk), a 3,940-foot-tall (1,200 meters) shield volcano located ... time the second image was captured in ...

READ MORE: A cradle of baby stars revealed in new European space telescope images The images and other information released Wednesday by the European Space Agency’s Euclid observatory includes ...

ALOTENANGO, Guatemala – Dramatic images and satellite footage have captured the powerful eruption of Guatemala's Volcán de Fuego (Volcano of Fire), putting thousands of people in the area at ...