NASA’s New 3D Model Shows the Earth Is a Lumpy Mess

We like to think of our home as a nice, smooth sphere. But mapping the Earth’s gravitational field provides a different view ...

NASA model reveals Earth is actually shaped like a potato

For centuries, Earth has been pictured as a near-perfect blue sphere floating through space — but a new high-precision gravity model is revealing a far stranger reality. Using detailed measurements ...

Not round, not an ellipse: NASA’s gravity-based model reveals Earth’s true geoid shape

The new model released by the U.S. space agency distorts sea level to show variations in Earth's gravity, helping scientists ...
USA Today

Inside NASA’s daring race to save a doomed space telescope

NASA's Swift Observatory is at risk of falling out of orbit and burning up in the atmosphere. A rescue mission is planned to launch a commercial robotic spacecraft to boost the telescope's orbit. The ...

NASA's ESCAPADE spacecraft captures rare view of Earth and Moon in visible and thermal infrared on way to Mars

NASA's ESCAPADE spacecraft captured Earth and the Moon from 363,250 miles away, revealing stunning differences between ...

Russian Soyuz brings three home after 8 months at space station

The Soyuz MS-28 landing in Kazakhstan brought a 241-day stay in space to a successful conclusion.
New York Post

NASA’s 1,300-pound Van Allen Probe A blazes back to Earth after 14 years in space

After nearly 14 years in space, NASA’s Van Allen Probe A made a fiery return to Earth on Wednesday, March 11. Weighing just over 1,300 pounds, the satellite blazed through Earth’s atmosphere and ...
Earth.com

NASA's Perseverance rover finds evidence of repeated asteroid bombardment on Mars

Ancient rocks found by NASA's Perseverance rover reveal Mars was repeatedly impacted by asteroids billions of years ago.