Sierra Space's experiment at NASA's Johnson Space Center aims to extract oxygen from lunar regolith, a key step for future lunar bases.

For years, scientists have pondered the mysterious structures deep within the Earth. Research indicates that they are ...

Meeting of the American Astronomical Society, two teams of astronomers—centered at Penn State and MIT—independently announced new discoveries about an extreme form of planetary destruction: apparently ...

The ESA has released the Zero Debris Technical Booklet to elucidate the challenges to a zero-debris future and propose ...

A small asteroid named 2024 PT5, once hailed as Earth's temporary second moon, might have originated from our very own Moon.

Winds circling a gas giant more than 500 light years from Earth have been detected flowing at supersonic speeds approaching 33,000 kilometers (20,000 miles) per hour, making them the fastest air ...

A near-Earth object was likely ejected into space after an impact thousands of years ago. Now it could contribute new ...

Scientists have found an elusive third form of magnetism that could help solve a longstanding puzzle about superconductors.

Space exploration is no longer the domain of countries alone. It’s now rapidly becoming the domain of private interests.

Splat! A meteorite impact recorded by a doorbell camera gave scientists a rare view of a space rock at the moment it hit Earth. The sound is like shattering glass.

Researchers from the University of Gottingen and the Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research have now revealed it could have formed from material ejected from the Earth's mantle.

Several electrochromic material systems have been described but the electrochromic phenomenon has rarely been observed in non-metallic elemental substances. Here, the authors describe iodine ...