What makes 3I/ATLAS especially intriguing is that the comet might be three billion years older than our entire Solar System.

The interstellar object 3I/ATLAS has been something of a mystery ever since it graced our solar system. From all outward ...

Scientists have found that a sample of the moon brought to Earth in 1972 by Apollo 17 astronauts contains a ratio of sulfur ...

As scientists get closer to putting humans on Mars, the need to understand why clocks tick faster on the red planet is more ...

SpaceX will have the chance on Monday to show that Starship's successful August flight, the first to complete all its primary ...

Vice President Mike Pence on Wednesday announced 18 astronauts chosen for possible participation in planned NASA missions to return to the moon's surface during the final U.S. space policy meeting ...

When Earth is opposite Mars from the sun, it will appear full because you’re looking directly on the daylit side. But ...

Two decades of observations by a pair of orbiting spacecraft have enabled scientists to track the whirlwinds called "dust devils" that regularly pirouette across the surface of Mars, providing a ...

O ver the last week, the European Space Agency’s (ESA) spacecraft Mars Express and ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter (TGO) were tasked with an unusual request; instead of looking down onto the Red Planet as ...

Lying between Mars and Jupiter is a massive ring of rock debris—the asteroid belt. Now thin, it’s fading away gradually.

For a quarter of a century, humans have continuously occupied the International Space Station. Here's a look at how far we've ...

Between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter lies a ring-shaped region called the asteroid belt, home to the vast majority of our ...