Pockets of microbes have been found living within a sealed fracture in a 2-billion-year-old rock. The rock was excavated from...
Deposits of ice in lunar dust and rock (regolith) are more extensive than previously thought, according to a new analysis...
For the first time, scientists have taken near-daily measurements of the sun’s global coronal magnetic field, a region of the...
NASA plans to send crewed missions to Mars over the next decade—but the 140 million-mile (225 million-kilometer) journey to the...
Every second, more than 3,000 stars are born in the visible universe. Many are surrounded by what astronomers call a...
Europe’s Hera probe is tentatively scheduled to launch Monday on a mission to inspect the damage a NASA spacecraft made...
The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is the largest and most powerful space telescope built to date. Since it was...
The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is the largest and most powerful space telescope built to date. Since it was...
Solar storms may cause faint northern lights across fringes of the northern United States over the weekend as forecasters monitor...
The Deep Space Optical Communications tech demo has completed several key milestones, culminating in sending a signal to Mars’ farthest...
One of the great challenges of modern cosmology is to reveal the nature of dark matter. We know it exists...
Researchers at the Department of Energy’s SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory have revealed new details about Earth’s core-mantle boundary and similar...
