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 ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Oregon scientists used human skin cells to create fertilizable eggs, a step in the quest to develop ...

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 ...

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

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

We could be overlooking an entire population of asteroids that pose a threat to Earth on the very simple basis that they're extremely hard to see.

Amid a looming government shutdown, NASA's future hinges on whether Congress can pass a stopgap funding measure with protective language for the agency. On Wednesday, the White House Office of ...

Scientists discovered molecular fossils that reveal sponges were among Earth’s earliest animals.