“The presence of this mineral puts a lot more nuance on what was going on,” said Mario Parente, an associate professor of electrical and computer engineering at UMass Amherst and one of the paper’s ...

A NASA logo is displayed at the entrance to the Mary W. Jackson NASA Headquarters building on June 2, 2025 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Kevin Carter/Getty Images) NASA is inviting the public to join ...

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

Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope are unraveling the mysteries of TRAPPIST-1e, an Earth-sized exoplanet 40 light years away that could harbor liquid water. Early data suggests hints of ...

A fleet of ball-shaped rovers could drift across the Martian surface like tumbleweed, driven simply by the wind.

In the 17th century, astronomers Christiaan Huygens and Giovanni Cassini trained their telescopes on Saturn and uncovered a startling truth: the planet's luminous bands were not solid appendages, but ...

A new British study swirled new evidence on the moon's frigid space temperatures, suggesting its different sides hold vastly conflicting degrees.

SpaceX’s Elon Musk says he will rocket Optimus bots on the first Starships sent to Mars, but a leading robotics scholar predicts their space odyssey will be short-lived.

Dark comets are a unique type of cosmic object. While they may look like asteroids, they are actually comets with unusual shapes and distinct characteristics.

The entire progression will be observed by the ESA’s orbiters the Mars Express and ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter as well as NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter which will utilize the cutting edge HiRISA ...

Featured in this image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope is a lenticular galaxy called NGC 4753 with intricate cosmic dust structures. Here on Earth, dust is a collection of small particles ...

The recent finding by NASA’s Perseverance rover on Mars—a possible sign of ancient microbial life in the rock nicknamed Cheyava Falls—could mark a turning ...