Researchers have discovered a 3.5-billion-year-old meteorite impact crater in Western Australia, providing new insights into ...

The intriguing chemistry of a rock collected by the Perseverance rover could trace to microbial activity—or not ...

"Scientifically there's a huge amount we can learn from asteroids," says Alan Fitzsimmons, an astronomer at Queens University ...

How do rogue planetary-mass objects – celestial bodies that fall between planets and stars in size – come into existence? An ...

On the way to investigate the scene of a historic asteroid collision, a European spacecraft swung by Mars and captured rare ...

Hera spacecraft captured an extraordinary near-infrared image of Mars’ moon Deimos during a flyby of the Red Planet. This ...

An eight-day mission has turned into a nine-month space stint for two NASA astronauts who are finally set to come home. But ...

Rocks loafing about on the surface of Mars have been harboring secrets about the red planet's mysterious past.

The James Webb Space Telescope is investigating the Flame Nebula, hunting for "failed stars" to better understand how brown ...

As the planet heats up and Antarctica’s ice sheet melts at a faster pace, scientists warn of a steady rise in sea levels.

Those orbiting Barnard’s star are among the smallest of the more than 5,800 exoplanets discovered since the 1990s as ...

Consequently, even though it is one of the closest stars to Earth, such that its light takes only six years to get here, it ...