Three MIT payloads will soon hitch a ride to the moon in a step toward establishing a permanent base on the lunar surface.

An international research team led by the University of Vienna has discovered that the solar system traversed the Orion ...

X-37B floats in the upper portion of the picture, one of its gallium arsenide solar panels visible on the left. The Space ...

A polar bear fetching a stick and other jaw-dropping moments from this year's World Nature Photography Awards.

Mars is widely known for its iconic rusty red color — many people even refer to it as just the "Red Planet" — but new research suggests the Martian shade isn't just lovely to look at. The chemistry ...

Ground-penetrating radar data obtained by China's Zhurong rover has revealed buried beneath the Martian surface evidence of ...

Blue Ghost, a new lunar lander from Firefly Aerospace, is just a little over a week away from touchdown. As it sidles up to ...

Understanding Geoengineering Geoengineering encompasses a range of techniques broadly categorized into two main approaches: ...

On the barren Chajnantor plateau, ALMA observes the depths of space, yet the rising Moon reminds us of home. Its seemingly large size on the horizon is merely an optical illusion, but its true ...

Mars, our neighboring red planet, possesses some of the most dazzling and extreme geological features within our solar system ...

NASA researchers have identified geological structures on Mars that are unlike anything found on Earth. From spider-like ...

Roughly 300,000 years ago, our species first appeared on the African landscape before spreading ... for evidence of life ...