You don't need a rocket ship to visit another world. Right here on planet Earth, there are bizarre landscapes that defy ...

NASA's SPHEREx space telescope detected organic molecules coming off comet 3I/ATLAS as the interstellar visitor made its ...

Scientists have produced the first global map and analysis of small mare ridges (SMRs) on the moon, a characteristic ...

To avoid Swift being dragged down low enough to hit Earth’s atmosphere, NASA tapped an Arizona-based startup to launch a ...

A planetary system 116 light-years from Earth has a peculiar pattern. It could flip the script on how planets form, ...

Katherine Johnson and other Black female scientists transformed NASA and STEM, overcoming segregation to calculate missions from Earth orbit to the Moon and beyond.

Experts point to a lack of real-world exposure to STEM concepts and careers as a reason for that slide in interest. Several ...

Look up on a clear night, and you might catch a strange kind of light show. A glowing streak of light, moving slower than a meteor, disintegrates piece by piece. That’s not a comet or a shooting star ...

Their observations of a faint, cool M-dwarf star called LHS 1903 revealed a system with a rocky world at its outer edge. LHS ...

41P/Tuttle-Giacobini-Kresak is now known to be in the Jupiter family of comets, going from a little inside Jupiter's orbit to almost as far as Earth on its 5.4-year orbit. It is notable for its large ...

Astronomy and commercial space are often portrayed as being on a collision course, yet their futures are deeply intertwined. As satellite constellations expand, astronomers raise concerns about trails ...