Just 33 light years from Earth, the system appears to host two rocky, Earth-sized planets.

Extreme heat waves are putting lives in danger, with some of the hottest urban neighborhoods 10 degrees hotter or more than their wealthier neighbors. Often, these are communities of color.

Satellites like Landsat play a crucial role in helping cities prepare and respond to extreme heat, a leading weather-related killer.

The grants total over $1 million in support of research that addresses issues in the water and food sectors.

Current trends suggest that powerful nations are defining the rules of resource use in space and satellite access in ways that will make it hard for developing nations to ever catch up.

When Indigenous peoples lose their river flow to dams, satellite programs like Landsat can help them fight for their resources.

Space is an important environment to preserve on behalf of professional astronomers, amateur stargazers, and Indigenous peoples, researchers argue.

Advances in technology have enabled researchers to sequence the large regions of repetitive DNA that eluded the Human Genome Project.

Every few centuries the sun blasts the Earth with a huge amount of high-energy particles. If it were to happen today, it would wreak havoc on technology.

Among thousands of known exoplanets, MIT astronomers flag three that are actually stars.