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 are tracking a large gas planet experiencing quite a quandary as it orbits extremely close to a young star - a ...

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

Earth, captured once a day by the EUMETSAT meteorological satellite, have been time-lapsed. (video looped) Credit: Simon ...

Right now, Earth is about 3.1 million miles farther from the sun than it is in early January when it reaches perihelion, its ...

In April, scientists announced that they had used NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope to find a potential signature of alien life in the glow of a distant planet. Other scientists were quick to ...

A new interstellar object, A11pl3Z, has been discovered in our solar system, marking the third such object to be observed. It ...

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