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

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.

The striking thing about this is that repeating the procedure on the star turned up no evidence of carbon-based chemicals, ...

A 2017 satellite photo shows the stark contrast along the boundary between a giant field of golden "star dunes" and a barren ...

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

NASA is inviting the public to take part in 36 “citizen science” projects that let volunteers contribute to real scientific ...

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 ...

Cosmic dust, it turns out, isn’t made of miniature rocks. It’s fluff. A comprehensive analysis of data from space missions, ...

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

NASA’s Mars InSight mission made history with a series of firsts in planetary science. This documentary explores its ...