NASA officials respond to reports claiming an exoplanet-hunting balloon crashed in Texas, with the project’s lead scientist explaining what really happened.

For thirteen years, from 2004 to 2017, the Cassini-Huygens mission conducted a detailed survey of the Saturn system. It ...

On windswept dunes inside Martian craters, such as Matara and Russell, the Red Planet wears a curious pattern that has long ...

Students for the Exploration and Development of Space (SEDS) is more than just a club for students who are passionate about ...

The discovery of ancient water in a planet-forming disk reveals that some of the water found in comets—and maybe even ...

NASA launched an exoplanet-hunting experiment Oct. 1 despite the government shutdown. After the mission's end on Oct. 2, news ...

Earth’s magnetic field protects the planet from space weather like cosmic radiation and charged particles from the Sun. The ...

The World Economic Forum and leading open science publisher Frontiers today launched the inaugural 10 Emerging Technology ...

The dream of living on another planet has intrigued scientists, engineers, and explorers for a long time. Now, the dream is ...

Analyses of its emissions using NASA’s Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory indicate that the interstellar comet probably has a ...

Scientists at MIT and elsewhere have discovered extremely rare remnants of "proto Earth," which formed about 4.5 billion ...

This is what’s known as the "Purple Earth Hypothesis", an idea first proposed by Professor Shiladitya DasSarma, molecular ...