Scientists witness planetary evolution in action as WISPIT 2b emerges within a cosmic nursery hundreds of light-years away.

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

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

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

Titan’s atmosphere tilts and shifts seasonally. The discovery shapes future exploration. Researchers at the University of Bristol have uncovered unusual behavior in Titan’s atmosphere for the first ...

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

With the discovery of ever more exoplanets—over 6,000 now—scientists, of course, want to know if they are habitable for life.

The Planetary Health Check is a warning but if we treat science as a compass and act together, we can reverse planetary ...

How will NASA's upcoming Habitable Worlds Observatory (HWO) mission differentiate Earth-sized exoplanets from other ...

Unfortunately, many species of phytoplankton build shells and may struggle as the oceans relentlessly acidify. These ...

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

The JWST has studied the chemical composition of a moon-forming disk circling a giant planet 625 light-years away.