Scientists may have figured out how Mars hung onto its surface liquid water in its ancient history via alternating periods of ...

When NASA launched a spacecraft to an asteroid, scientists patiently waited for their chance to look at bits of the space ...

NASA’s Lucy mission will continue its journey to explore the Jupiter Trojan asteroids, which share Jupiter’s orbit around the ...

For my money, deep-frying is the single best preparation of pretty much any food that exists. The downside, obviously, being ...

Mars haunts us as a vision of a planet gone wrong. It was once warm and wet, with rivers flowing across its surface and ...

Bennu’s parent asteroid, which formed around 4.5 billion years ago, seems to have been home to pockets of liquid water.

In October 2020, a van-sized robotic spacecraft briefly touched down on the surface of Bennu, a 525-metre-wide asteroid 320 ...

This is how the diversity of life on Earth came to be ... For example, Rudolph Zallinger's famous 1965 Time-Life illustration "The Road to Homo Sapiens" shows humans evolving in a stepwise ...

This photo of asteroid Bennu is composed of 12 Polycam images collected on Dec. 2, 2024, by the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft. NASA A ...

By depositing substantial piles of dung, vicuñas are speeding up plant colonization on freshly deglaciated terrain.

A bright fireball streaked across the sky above mountains, glaciers and spruce forest near the town of Revelstoke in British ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has revolutionized astronomy in just three years. A new project celebrates its impact on the ...