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

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

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

With a low but notable chance of hitting our moon this asteroid is in the sights of scientists. A city-block-sized asteroid ...

Something strange is moving through our solar system — and scientists are scrambling to figure out exactly what it is.

A new study reveals that seismic activity on the Moon may threaten the stability of future long-term infrastructure. A recent study found that ground shaking caused by moonquakes, not meteorite ...

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

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

Whether an asteroid is spinning neatly on its axis or tumbling chaotically, and how fast it is doing so, has been shown to be ...

This article, originally titled "The Man Who Discovered the Universe," is from the Summer 2025 issue of Air & Space Quarterly ...

The aurora borealis is a spectacle of space weather, but solar flares and coronal mass ejections have far more Earthly ...

A dramatic shift in Earth’s magnetic field occurred roughly 41,000 years ago during what scientists now call the Laschamps ...