The total solar eclipse in North America on April 8, 2024, temporarily reset the biological clocks of some bird species, ...

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory braces for another round of layoffs as budget cuts loom. Approximately 550 employees of NASA ...

Data from the James Webb Space Telescope and other observatories suggests a supervolcanic exomoon may lurk around the giant ...

SpaceX’s luck appears to be turning, but NASA’s moon race is a looming concern. Here are six takeaways from Starship Flight 11.

The former NASA astronaut and the agency’s 14th administrator says it’s not a matter of if we go to the Red Planet — but when ...

Scientists found unusual sulfur in moon samples from Apollo 17. The discovery reveals new clues about the Moon’s ancient ...

In the early 1400s, nearly a century before Columbus’s fateful voyage to the Americas, China seemed most poised to use maritime might to create a global empire. Beginning in 1405, Ming Dynasty admiral ...

A colossal northern asteroid impact billions of years ago likely shaped the Moon’s south polar region and explains its uneven ...

Calls for the US to land astronauts back on the moon before China have been increasingly loud and frequent. But it all hinges on SpaceX’s Starship.

More than 50 years after the Apollo 17 Moon rocks returned to Earth, researchers are still uncovered surprising new details ...

A new analysis of ice grains bursting from Enceladus' water ice plumes strongly suggests life is possible on Saturn's ...

Complex organic molecules that form part of the chain of chemical reactions that can result in life's building blocks have ...