I/ATLAS fuels a global security row as the CIA issues a 'Glomar' response to records requests. Is the interstellar object a ...

Jupiter’s most famous storm is slimming down, spinning up and behaving in ways that challenge what scientists thought they ...

For decades, Jupiter’s moon Europa has been cast as one of the solar system’s best bets for alien life, a world with a global ...

Roy Scranton is an essayist, novelist, literary critic, climate philosopher, and author, most recently, of “Impasse: Climate Change and the Limits of Progress.” He teaches at the University of Notre ...

First light for the innovative new instrument is anticipated in 2028. Spectre — once operational — will play a key role in ...

A new NASA spacecraft called Pandora is awaiting launch ahead of its journey to study the atmospheres of exoplanets, or ...

Mars has an active, electrically charged surface where dust storms and spinning dust devils regularly move and reshape the ...

Pandora, the latest in a long portfolio of University of Arizona's space science missions, has cleared its last major ...

Spacecraft are assembled in specialized “cleanrooms” that are designed to avoid contamination from dust and microorganisms.

New calculations reported by Live Science indicate Jupiter was once much larger and is still contracting as it cools, offering constraints on early solar system conditions.

Mars, often depicted as a barren red planet, is far from lifeless. With its thin atmosphere and dusty surface, it is an ...

The world’s oceans are becoming dangerously acidic. A controversial proposal would raise the pH — by mixing chemicals into ...