NASA finally has counted up all the asteroid samples returned by a spacecraft last fall—and it’s double the rubble return...
NASA is seeking applicants to participate in its next simulated one-year Mars surface mission to help inform the agency’s plans...
What’s causing mysterious bursts of radio waves from deep space? Astronomers may be a step closer to providing one answer...
Another private U.S. company took a shot at the moon Thursday, launching a month after a rival’s lunar lander missed...
A team co-led by Southwest Research Institute found evidence for hydrothermal or metamorphic activity within the icy dwarf planets Eris...
According to the Gaia hypothesis, which was proposed by the scientists Lovelock and Margulis in the 1970s, our planet should...
Earth-bound surgeons remotely controlled a small robot aboard the International Space Station over the weekend, conducting the first-ever such surgery...
Our understanding of how galaxies form and the nature of dark matter could be completely upended after new observations of...
A study led by Western astrobiologist Catherine Neish shows the subsurface ocean of Titan—the largest moon of Saturn—is most likely...
An unmanned lunar spacecraft has captured and transmitted data analyzing 10 lunar rocks, a greater-than-expected achievement that could help provide...
Ever since the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) captured its first glimpse of the early universe, astronomers have been surprised...
In our most basic understanding of our solar system, planets are drawn into the orbit of our massive star, the...
