The asteroid belt is found orbiting between Mars and Jupiter and is a vast collection of rocks that is thought to be a planet ...

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

Scientists solve a 15-year Mars mystery, confirming ferric hydroxysulfate formed by volcanic and hydrothermal heating across ...

In May 1964, Arno Penzias and Robert Wilson were testing how radio waves bounced off balloon satellites developed by Bell ...

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

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

A mission to bring back samples from Mars would cost billions, so they are staying there, for now, the author writes.

October's longer nights bring two transits of Titan across Saturn, while Io and Europa tango together across Jupiter three times. Mercury and Mars make a brief evening appearance, and Venus dominates ...

Get set for a supermoon and meteor showers: everything you need to know about what’s happening in the night sky this coming ...

Researchers from the University of Massachusetts Amherst are part of a team that has identified a unique mineral on Mars, described ...