A new island has emerged in Alaska this summer, unveiled by the retreat of a glacier and the subsequent rise of lake waters ...

Alsek Glacier disconnected from a mountain called Prow Knob sometime this past summer, making way for Alsek Lake to surround ...

Scientists have found strong evidence that Mars was inhabited multiple times. The team identified 24 minerals that pointed to ...

Scientists believe intriguing leopard spots on a rock sampled by the Perseverance rover on Mars may have potentially been ...

NASA has long been searching for definitive signs of life on Mars, and it seems like NASA’s Perseverance rover has found the ...

The crescent moon aligned with Venus and the bright star Regulus on September 19, creating a rare celestial conjunction in the morning sky. Viewers in the Northern Hemisphere can still spot the trio ...

A lookout point in the foothills of Mount Sharp, a 3-mile-high mountain, allowed the rover to see all the way across Gale Crater 's floor. Near the center of the image is Peace Vallis, an ancient ...

This giant protective bubble, created by the Sun’s solar wind, extends far beyond the orbit of Neptune and shields life in our solar system from harmful cosmic radiation and high-energy particles.

When a massive asteroid is hurtling toward Earth, the solution seems straightforward; smash a spacecraft into it and knock it off course.

NASA’s Mars rover finds organic signals in mudstone that resemble microbial activity, sparking new debate over life on the ...

"The results reported here can be crucial when down-selecting which samples, if not all, are returned to Earth." ...