A “natural history” approach to space exploration would take into account instead developments in the fields of physics, ...
"There are incredibly tantalizing samples in the Perseverance rover's cache that could revolutionize our understanding of ...
At half the size of Earth and one-tenth its mass, Mars is a featherweight as far as planets go. Yet new research reveals the ...
Astronomers have captured an exceptionally rare view of young planets in mid-transformation, revealing how bloated, giant worlds may shrink into the most common planets in the galaxy. Astronomers have ...
Since the Kepler Space Telescope began its prowl for exoplanets in 2009, it has uncovered a strange pattern among these alien ...
After a string of dramatic failures, the huge Starship rocket from SpaceX had a fully successful test on Oct. 13, 2025. A ...
Among other things, the James Webb Space Telescope is designed to get us closer to finding habitable worlds around faraway ...
When the object now known as 3I/ATLAS was flagged by automated sky surveys, it first looked like another distant icy body ...
Which way is ‘down’ has a different answer depending on where you are on Earth, in the solar system, in our galaxy and beyond ...
Discovered by volunteer scientists, this alien planet is out of synch with its siblings ...
NASA’s Pandora mission will study exoplanet atmospheres by separating star light from planet signals, helping scientists learn which distant worlds may have air, water, and signs of life ...