Creating a composite photograph of the images taken by the Color and Stereo Surface Imaging System ( CaSSIS) aboard the Trace ...

Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope are unraveling the mysteries of TRAPPIST-1e, an Earth-sized exoplanet 40 ...

Earth is far from a static place. That's true in the present, but it's even more apparent when you look to the past, as Earth ...

“The presence of this mineral puts a lot more nuance on what was going on,” said Mario Parente, an associate professor of ...

From a distance, Biosphere 2 emerges from the cacti and creosote of the Sonoran desert like a gleaming oasis, a colony of ...

Plus: Why are hurricanes so powerful? Are winds on other planets like they are on Earth? The answer, my friend, is blowin' in ...

The recently launched spacecraft will sit upstream of the solar wind and study it before it gets to Earth. Although they will ...

In a groundbreaking observation, NASA’s Mars Odyssey orbiter captured an extraordinary image of a towering formation breaking ...

Mercury is tiny, barely bigger than the Moon. Its metallic core makes up 70% of the planet’s mass, vastly exceeding Earth’s ...

St. Andrews University physicists who looked at the planet said that the research conjures "two possible explanations." ...

Because all earthly life shares a common origin, finding a second tree of life would forever change humanity’s understanding ...

In December 2024, the spacecraft successfully beamed an infrared laser message back to Earth from a mind-boggling distance of ...