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NASA-developed technology that can remotely detect the tiniest motions of the body caused by basic processes necessary for life will be used by disaster relief teams in earthquake-stricken Turkey.

A meteorite believed to have originated from a brilliant fireball that lit up European skies on Monday (Feb. 13) was located in France by citizen scientists.

Earth-observation satellites continue to assess the vast damage in Turkey and Syria caused by the devastating series of earthquakes that struck on Feb. 6.

A sizable asteroid will make its closest approach to Earth in four centuries on Wednesday evening (Feb. 15), but there's nothing to fear.

South Korea's first moon mission is now fully operational and unveiling new views of the Earth and moon from lunar orbit.

A space rock transformed into a fireball within view of millions on Monday (Feb. 13) about 10 years after the Chelyabinsk event that saw a small space rock explode over a Russian town.

Two enormous cracks in Earth's crust opened near the Turkish-Syrian border after two powerful earthquakes shook the region on Monday (Feb. 6), killing over 20,000 people.

A satellite system designed to track hurricanes can reveal where damaging microplastics accumulate in the ocean. A new study now reveals why.

The sun is growing more active in its regular 11-year-cycle and has a huge sunspot serving as a hotbed of flares and other activity.

The death toll from the magnitude 7.8 earthquake Monday (Feb. 6) and aftershocks is estimated to be at least 11,200 people in the region, according to reports.

The United Nations Satellite Centre has activated its emergency mapping service following a devastating earthquake that struck Turkey and Syria to provide imagery that aids in disaster relief.

Rare clouds that give off bright, multi-colored light like an aurora were recently spotted at multiple locations in the Arctic. But what causes them?

Humanity faces greater existential threats than it did during the Cold War, according to the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists

The island was destroyed by the same volcano that formed it seven years before.

The first-ever satellite designed to detect major emitters of the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide is set to launch to space this year.

A forthcoming telescope that will observe Earth from space has been renamed in honor of George R. Carruthers, a visionary scientist who designed and built a telescope placed on the moon.

After 31 years in orbit, NASA's magnetosphere-studying mission Geotail has come to end after the spacecraft's final data recorder failed.

The space rock, called 2023 BU, was discovered less than a week ago.

The spinning, solid inner core of the Earth may be slowing down by a minuscule amount, according to evidence from earthquakes.