A rugged Martian landscape that resembles a vast spiderweb when seen from orbit is offering new insights into the planet’s ...
Discovered in 1930 at the Lowell Observatory, Pluto was demoted as a planet in 2006. Some want President Trump to take action via executive order.
NASA’s Curiosity rover uncovered a remarkable surprise on Mars that could reshape our understanding of the planet’s ...
This finding by Perseverance…is the closest we have ever come to discovering life on Mars,” said acting NASA administrator Sean Duffy in a statement. “The identification of a potential biosignature on ...
NASA astronomers have released shocking images of a new space discovery. The James Webb Space Telescope has revealed new ...
For 20 years, NASA’s ALaMO Observatory has tracked meteors and lunar impacts, providing continuous data on space hazards and asteroid research from Huntsville, Alabama.
A newly identified world beyond our solar system is giving scientists a fresh look at how strange planets can be, and it may come with a stench to match. Astronomers have discovered what appears to be ...
NASA's planet-hunting mission, the Kepler Space Telescope, has just discovered Kepler-452b, a planet that scientists are calling "Earth 2.0." Scientists said in a press conference Thursday that they ...
A powerful "gamma-ray burst" has been seen exploding from merging neutron stars hidden within a previously unknown mini-galaxy leftover from an ancient cosmic crash. The "collision within a collision" ...
NASA’s planetary science program is still facing a funding shortfall that requires “strategic choices” about which missions to continue.