With no atmosphere to slow it down, asteroid 2024 YR4 could carve a 1-km-wide crater—the largest fresh lunar scar in 5,000 ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — A cluster of space weather satellites blasted off Wednesday morning to cast fresh eyes on solar storms that can produce stunning auroras but also scramble communications ...

Each vehicle from this “triple launch” is tasked with investigating different aspects of the dynamic interactions between the Sun, Earth, and the cosmic environment that surrounds our planet.

The three satellites look to measure mysteries of space weather while also acting as a warning system for its dangerous effects.

The rate of finding these distant worlds has recently increased, with astronomers scrambling to accommodate the data ...

NASA officials say its Mars-bound ESCAPADE spacecraft is back in Florida and is being prepped for its scheduled launch this ...

From a distance, Biosphere 2 emerges from the cacti and creosote of the Sonoran desert like a gleaming oasis, a colony of ...

Astronomers found an atmosphere where they least expected it—clinging to an exoplanet that’s too small, too hot and too old ...

Fast-forward to today: we’ve gone from one lonely planet to a catalog of thousands. The pace is accelerating. In 2015, NASA’s Kepler telescope had confirmed its 1,000th exoplanet. By 2022, the tally ...

Lauren Edgar was in second grade the first time she realized her future might lie outside the earth’s atmosphere. While ...

Hot, small and old—exoplanet TOI-561 b is just about the worst place to look for alien air. Scientists using JWST found it ...

Mars has cloudy nights - but why? This exciting discovery on the Red Planet has helped scientists figure out a more complete ...