Summer-a time when the urge to explore places familiar and new beckons to young and old alike. Although the sun sets late during the summer months, we inevitably find ourselves outside looking at ...

Space is home to a great many oddities, and even chemistry gets strange out there. In fact, there are even some molecules ...

The asteroid warning network is affiliated with the United Nations. Officials activate the IAWN when an asteroid bigger than ...

Finding life in outer space is one of the great endeavors of humankind. One approach is to find motile microorganisms that ...

There are trillions of charged particles—protons and electrons, the basic building blocks of matter—whizzing around above your head at any given time. These high-energy particles, which can travel at ...

The image below, taken by the European Space Agency's Trace Gas Orbiter (which arrived at Mars in 2016), shows one of the ...

NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission returned samples from asteroid Bennu, revealing insights into life's ingredients on Earth, paralleling those found in the Revelstoke meteorite's analysis.

The first planet to be discovered inside the habitable zone of a Sun-like star. Its name is Kepler 22-b. When a planet is ...

Bright yellow deposits in Consus Crater provide new evidence of Ceres' cryovolcanic history, reigniting the debate over ...

The memorial flight is scheduled for mid-2025 from Cape Canaveral, Florida. The Serenity Flight will launch into Earth orbit aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9. The launch service will be provided by ABOVE ...

Just as Sun, Moon, Mercury, Venus and Mars move through the signs of the zodiac as they orbit, so do the outer planets.

Astronaut Nicole Stott, who has made it her mission to promote the healing power of art and the need to protect our planet, ...