After completing the asteroid sampling mission, the Tianwen-2 return capsule is expected to land on Earth and complete its recovery by the end of 2027. Subsequently, the main spacecraft will continue ...

JWST data hints that Trappist-1e may have an atmosphere. More transits will test if this world could support liquid water. Recent observations with NASA’s advanced JWST telescope have revealed a ...

Using the James Webb Space Telescope, scientists uncovered bizarre atmospheric structures on Saturn, including drifting “dark beads” in the ionosphere and an asymmetric star pattern in the ...

About 4.6 billion years ago, our corner of space was basically just a boring cloud of gas and dust floating […] ...

Earth's core cannot be made just of iron — it also appears to contain carbon. And our research suggests it may contain a bit of oxygen and possibly silicon as well.

Most people take the seasons for granted, but by using old satellite data, scientists have found that Earth's seasons might not be as dependable as we thought.

NASA has confirmed 6,000 exoplanets, marking a major milestone in humanity’s quest to understand other worlds. From gas ...

The Perseverance Rover has samples of potential ancient life on the planet. The challenge is getting them back to Earth.

Scientists have discovered new information about the interstellar object nearing Earth which could reveal facts about the ...

The sun is in its most active phase—solar summer—causing auroras and posing real risks to satellites, GPS, and power systems ...

Harvard’s Avi Loeb and astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson weigh in on interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS and the rising alien ...

NASA is gearing up to launch the Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe (IMAP), a mission aimed at exploring the ...