SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Police in Northern California were understandably perplexed when they pulled over a Waymo taxi after it ...

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

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

Plus: Why are hurricanes so powerful? Are winds on other planets like they are on Earth? The answer, my friend, is blowin' in ...

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

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

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

Some classes of stars create light elements, such as oxygen and silicon; others also craft heavier ones, such as iron and ...

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

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

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 ...