Switzerland's glaciers melted considerably over the past 12 months to log their fourth-largest reduction in ice volume on ...

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

Blue Origin is working with partners in Luxembourg on a campaign called Project Oasis, which aims to identify valuable resources on the moon.

Scientists have gotten a never-before-seen look at an area around a large exoplanet 625 light-years away where moons like the ...

In the 17th century, astronomers Christiaan Huygens and Giovanni Cassini trained their telescopes on Saturn and uncovered a ...

Musk’s goal for his Mars colonization program “is to become a space-faring civilization and a multi-planet species,” as an ...

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 ...

New observations suggest that the dwarf planet Makemake is surrounded by faintly glowing methane gas. Scientists are unsure ...

An Earth-observing radar satellite launched in July jointly between the U.S. and India has returned its first images of our planet’s surface.

Several companies firmly believe that mining for helium-3 (He-3) on the moon is a real potential money-maker. But is there an economic return on investment in scouring Earth's moon for that natural ...

The differences between the visible and hidden sides of our satellite are not limited to the surface: A new analysis of rocks brought back to Earth last year by the Chang'e-6 mission suggests that the ...