NASA's IMAP mission will launch probes to study the heliosphere, a solar shield protecting Earth, offering insights into solar storms and safeguarding technology.

This year, the autumnal equinox falls on Sept. 22 at about 2:19 p.m. EDT or 11:19 a.m. PDT. The last time there was an ...

Astronomers are trying to determine what caused a series of gamma-ray bursts, the most powerful explosions in the universe, to occur in a single day.

NASA has just shared one of its most impressive Mars panoramas to date. Captured by its trusty Curiosity rover, the panorama ...

NASA’s other rover, Perseverance, landed in the Jezero Crater on February 18, 2021, to search for signs of ancient life and collect rock samples for a future return to Earth.

NASA’s Curiosity rover captured a clear panorama of Mars' Gale Crater in August, during the Martian winter when dust levels tend to be at their lowest. Curiosity’s mission continues to study whether ...

Astronomers are racing to study 3I/ATLAS, an interstellar comet whose strange behavior reveals new clues about how other ...

NASA scientists say a rock sample collected by the Perseverance rover in Jezero Crater may contain the strongest signs yet of ancient microbial life on Mars, though more analysis is needed before ...

A new NASA mission will capture images of Earth's invisible "halo," the faint light given off by our planet's outermost atmospheric layer, the exosphere, as it morphs and changes in response to the ...

The formation of the island is a concern to experts, highlighting the broader issue of glacier retreat caused by climate change.

A lookout point in the foothills of Mount Sharp, a 3-mile-high mountain, allowed the rover to see all the way across Gale ...

JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — A retreating glacier revealed a new island in Alaska this summer, as lake water filled in to surround a ...