NASA has formally begun decommissioning the MAVEN Mars orbiter after 11 years, ending a mission that transformed Mars atmospheric science.

THE BEGINNING – 4.5 BILLION YEARS AGO On Mars, this stage is called the Pre Noachian era. Mars had just formed from dust and ...

Astronomers at the University of California, Irvine (UCI) have discovered a potentially habitable super-Earth located just 25 light-years away.

Of all the strange worlds in our Milky Way galaxy, some of the most mysterious are those hanging around white dwarf stars.

While life on Mars (and Venus) has long been an obsession for those wondering if we're alone, there are other places in our ...

The UN Environment Programme (UNEP) and Bloomberg Philanthropies today announced efforts to help countries raise their ...

An unlikely group of outsiders grasp for acceptance on and off-screen in the moving, sometimes surreal biopic The Elephant ...

The aerospace startup Aspire is designing a fully reusable rocket that could make launches cheaper. It might just beat Elon ...

Tianwen-2 asteroid mission closes to within 20 kilometers of Kamoʻoalewa on July 4, 2026 — China‘s first sample-return probe ...

For centuries, humans have been wondering whether anyone lived on Venus. In the 1960s, telescopes delivered bad news: ...

The hunt for ancient life on Mars just got an important test run. Scientists confirmed that the Rosalind Franklin rover's ...

ESA's Rosalind Franklin rover will use MOMA to search for ancient Martian life by analyzing chiral organic molecules.