The 2024 novel “Orbital” by Samantha Harvey has been awarded the first-ever Climate Fiction Prize. The £10,000 ($13,240) ...

By analyzing how far material ejected from an impact crater flies, scientists can locate buried glaciers and other ...

The BBC's Sky at Night Magazine reports that, should we ever get to stargaze on Mars, we'd see two moons - Phobos and Deimos - instead of just one. We wouldn't see as many satellites either, making it ...

While significant technological and logistical hurdles remain, pioneering organizations are already proving that data in ...

New observations from NASA's James Webb Space Telescope have revealed that auroras on Jupiter are hundreds of times brighter ...

On Earth, the most dangerous ultraviolet radiation for living organisms - UV - is blocked by the ozone layer. However, on Mars, the thin atmosphere, almost devoid of ozone, allows ...

On Feb. 27, 1988, the first of my weekly columns on stargazing appeared in print. More than 1.5 million words later, I sit ...

NASA's Europa Clipper spacecraft, en route to Jupiter's icy ocean moon Europa, recently captured a ghostly infrared portrait ...

The White House says NASA's Mars Sample Return mission is a waste of money, but experts say the mission could help it achieve ...

An aerospace engineer explains why NASA, Space Force and other agencies are using or testing aerobraking for more ...

A new study led by the University of Southampton and research institutes in France has uncovered the mystery of how mini sand ...

By studying seismic waves, researchers have found a layer deep beneath the surface of Mars that could contain enough liquid ...