Scientists believe there are planets outside our solar system where life is even more abundant and sustainable.

A Japanese-led mission is launching to explore Mars’ two mysterious little moons and determine how they formed — and unlock ...

A Japanese spacecraft is set to launch to Mars on Monday, but its objective is Phobos, the larger of the two Martian moons.

NASA's Perseverance rover has driven farther than any vehicle on the surface of another world, and much faster.

These scientists hope that fire-spotting satellites, AI tools and ancient land practices could preserve the world’s ...

Project Suncatcher is Google's moonshot to run AI on solar-powered satellites. Four TPUs are now in orbit, but a real data ...

It has focused on the Jezero Crater, a region in the northern hemisphere of Mars believed to have been flooded with water and ...

Most planetary scientists will tell you the heyday of Venus exploration was more than a generation ago. That is about to ...

A research team has discovered rings, grooves, and cavities in extremely compact disks surrounding young stars.

Spread the loveImagine a world born from the ashes of a dying star, a cosmic phoenix rising from stellar destruction. Sounds like science fiction, right? Yet, astronomers have recently uncovered ...

This article appears in the November 2026 print edition with the headline “Choose Your Overlord.” When you buy a book using a ...