Curiosity, NASA's Mars rover, accidentally cracked open a seemingly ordinary rock, revealing an unexpected yellow substance ...

China is positioning itself to take the lead in one of the most coveted goals in planetary science—returning samples from ...

Hidden among the majestic canyons of the Utah desert, about 7 miles from the nearest town, is a small research facility meant ...

See Rocket Lab's "proposed mission architecture" for a Mars sample return mission in this animation. Credit: Rocket Lab ...

When President Trump floated his budget for NASA for 2026, it slashed the science budget by half, proposed the end of the Artemis program’s Space Launch System rocket, Orion spacecraft and Gateway ...

Indian astronaut Group Captain Shubhanshu Shukla is visiting a home away from Earth that has seen continuous human presence ...

Researchers are developing bioplastic bubbles from algae that could grow, repair, and protect habitats on Mars without ...

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 ...

Astronomers discovered 3I/ATLAS, an interstellar object moving at over 60 km/s towards the Sun. It's the third known object ...

Microbes have been discovered alive inside 2-billion-year-old rock, offering a rare window into Earth’s deep past. Found in ...

The space agency spotted the quick-moving object with the Atlas telescope in Chile earlier this week, and confirmed it was a ...

An analysis argues that deporting Elon Musk would severely cripple US space exploration and hand dominance to China, ...