This coastal cliff in Hawaii stands below an ancient volcano, now covered in green. Residents shocked to see aircraft larger ...

Maven, an acronym for Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution, abruptly stopped communicating with ground stations on Dec. 6.

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has once again spotted a distant exoplanet that I have exactly zero interest in ...

For several decades, it has been thought that dust devils on Mars may be able to produce spark discharges. Many lab ...

Mars keeps refusing to behave like the dead, simple world many scientists once imagined. Each new rover trench, fractured ...

Nasa’s mission teams use extreme environments to trial equipment and procedures for future lunar and planetary exploration.

In the first episode of "The Expanse" (which debuted 10 years ago this weekend), a spaceship makes the biggest meal of changing direction since Austin Powers attempted an [insert very big ...

On Dec. 9, 1979, scientists certified the global eradication of smallpox, a disease which killed an estimated 300 million ...

Regina Barber and Emily Kwong of NPR's Short Wave discuss an Earth-sized exoplanet, how ant colonies deal with disease and a possible link between volcanoes and the Black Death.

Interstellar visitor 3I/ATLAS erupted with violent ice volcanoes, shifting from quiet ice ball to active body, sparking ...

In 1941, an Alton officer directs traffic at Broadway and Piasa ...