Perseverance rover data shows Jezero Crater once held a calm lake, leaving behind mudstones rich in organic-linked minerals. The presence of iron-phosphate and iron-sulfide nodules suggests processes ...

Virginia celebrated the opening of its new launch pad last month at Wallops Island, which marks the state’s role in the aerospace industry. Gov. Glenn Youngkin attended the ceremony to cut the ...

The Sun will envelop the comet and make it disappear in the coming days. It will reappear when the two celestial bodies, the Sun and the comet, become close in the sky for viewers. The comet at ...

NASA has reinvigorated the race to put man on the Moon, nearly half a century after its historic Apollo missions. The agency announced that the spacecraft set to ferry a crew of four around the Moon ...

A respected Harvard astrophysicist believes one of the most famous signals ever sent to Earth could have been sent by the object rapidly approaching our planet.

A European spacecraft has captured the most detailed images yet of Mars’s upper atmosphere, revealing a delicate, layered structure made of dust and ice particles. Described by scientists as ...

NASA's Psyche spacecraft, the was launched in 2023 to study a space rock in the asteroid belt in 2029, just sent its last laser message from deep space. The signal is a huge achievement for NASA and ...

As a backlash builds in Congress to SpaceX delays with its Starship lunar lander, a top Mars scholar is calling for Elon Musk to radically revise his Mars mission plans.

Bian Zhigang, vice administrator of CNSA, outlined a number of recent successes, including the Chang'e 5 and Chang'e 6 moon sample-return missions, some of the material from which has been sent to ...

In December 2024, the spacecraft successfully beamed an infrared laser message back to Earth from a mind-boggling distance of 494 million kilometers (307 million miles). That's more than twice the ...

NASA canceled the VIPER rover mission to the moon last year, citing cost overruns. But the space agency has announced a plan to revive it.

Los Angeles has no shortage of museums, and more are coming. Particularly in anticipation of the 2028 Summer Olympics, several existing museums are in the ...