Perseverance rover data shows Jezero Crater once held a calm lake, leaving behind mudstones rich in organic-linked minerals.

SpaceX’s Elon Musk says he will rocket Optimus bots on the first Starships sent to Mars, but a leading robotics scholar ...

The moon is sometimes called "two-faced" because the surface of its side perpetually facing away from Earth looks so different than its side always facing our planet. And the differences run deeper ...

The Habitable Worlds Observatory is poised to tell us whether Earthlike planets are common—if it can get off the ground ...

Perseverance represents more than a machine. It is a proxy extending humanity’s senses across millions of miles to an alien ...

Could black holes help explain the origins of high-energy cosmic radiation? The universe is filled with many forms of ...

Astrophysicist David McComas is leading a new SpaceX mission to the point between Earth and the sun, where scientists hope to study the boundary of the heliosphere.

"If there is a space race, China's already winning it, and could win it dramatically in the next few decades." ...

For researchers at the University of Idaho, spotting a moon 6 miles wide orbiting Uranus, a staggering 1.8 billion miles from Earth, may actually be easier than finding a white cat in a snowstorm. A ...

NASA’s exoplanet tally has climbed to 6,000, revealing bizarre and beautiful worlds far stranger than our own.

NASA has released the first radar images from a new Earth-mapping satellite showing the Maine coast and North Dakota farmland ...

The investigation was released eight months after The Times revealed hours-long delays in evacuation orders in west Altadena, ...