Asteroids are some of the oldest objects in the Solar System: leftovers from the chaotic time when planets were assembling from dust and rock. They're ...

Here's a thought experiment that keeps planetary scientists awake at night. Strip every living thing from our planet, every bacterium, every blade of grass, every creature that has ever drawn breath ...

Using the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) and High Accuracy Radial velocity Planet Searcher for the Northern ...

Remembering the day the Venera 3 impacted Venus It is 60 years since humanity first got up close and personal with another planet, with the impact of the Soviet Union's Venera 3.… An impact wasn't the ...

Around 2.3 billion years ago, the Great Oxygenation Event (GOE) marked a major turning point in Earth’s history. The increase ...

Astronomers have uncovered a fascinating new exoplanet, TOI-5734 b, located roughly 106 light-years away from Earth. The ...

NASA reveals how a lunar eclipse appears from the Moon, where Earth blocks the Sun for hours. Watch how the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) powers down instruments to survive darkness and why this ...

A new study shows how simulated Mars dust affects tardigrades, offering insight into space farming and contamination risks.

VANCOUVER — A meteor that NASA says soared across the night sky above Metro Vancouver at about 100 times the speed of sound ...

Fort Rock State Natural Area near Fort Rock, Oregon, is exactly that kind of place, a geological marvel so spectacular that ...