The aerospace giant says it can revive Mars Sample Return with a leaner, lower-cost approach drawing on proven designs.

"Our work supports both the scientific quest to answer the question 'Are we alone?' and practical efforts to manage the ...

How did Earth, alone among the solar system's rocky planets, become the home for life? How, among all this frigid ...

In its inaugural year, the International Aerial Photographer of the Year Awards feature stunning images from photographers ...

Scientists have long wondered how Earth’s continents first formed. Now, a team of geologists from the University of Hong Kong ...

When astronomers first discovered exoplanets, they found massive ones orbiting large stars. The technology to detect smaller planets around low-mass, dim red dwarfs took time to develop. By the ...

The James Webb telescope has made another stunning discovery -- this time of a massive planet that could potentially sustain life.

Some planets take the expression "you're your own worst enemy" to the extreme — triggering stellar flares from their own ...

New computer models suggested that the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) could get better radar data if it rolled farther ...

TOI-6894 b, the largest exoplanet relative to its host star yet seen, doesn’t fit the most widely accepted formation model ...

According to Live Scence, the planet’s shadow was first spotted in 2021 in data taken by the European Space Agency’s Gaia ...