From cooler temps to fall foliage, there's plenty to be excited about for the start of fall — but what does the autumnal ...
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.
Astronomy experts advise stargazers to find locations away from city lights, where dark skies allow for clearer views. Parks, ...
The U.S. and China are in a sprint toward manned missions to the lunar surface by the end of this decade, with sights on 2029 ...
The Earth stands alone in the solar system as a habitable world, as far as we know. But that doesn’t mean we don’t get visitors, most often in the form of (usually harmless) asteroids. Some even ...
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 ...
As of Friday, Sept. 19, the moon phase is Waning Crescent, and it is 5% lit up to us on Earth, according to NASA's Daily Moon ...
NASA's Deep Space Optical Communications technology has successfully shown that data encoded in lasers can be reliably transmitted, received, and decoded after traveling millions of miles from Earth ...
In 2005, ESA's Huygens probe landed on Titan, revealing the atmosphere, landscapes, and chemistry of Saturn's moon.
In March 1968, the Soviet Union had a partial success with Zond 4. With this launch, they were able to take the spacecraft ...
A coalition of scientists and historians are floating a long-shot plan to retrieve orbiting relics—raising questions about ...
New research from NASA has found that the dwarf planet Ceres may be another place to look for evidence of primitive life in our solar system.