The mission, scheduled to launch on Monday, is headed to Phobos, the larger of the two moons of Mars. It could carry back the ...

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

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

Our solar system appears beautifully organized, but its stability is actually the result of an incredibly delicate cosmic equilibrium developed over billions of years. Toying with the positioning of ...

Nobody's saying solar is bad. But if a massive solar farm is planned near you, there are a few things the research says you ...

A new study suggests that our solar system’s smallest planet has shrunk by up to 30 percent since its birth roughly 4.5 billion years ago ...

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

Several decades ago, we thought the solar system had nine planets. Then Pluto was reclassified as a dwarf planet. And then astronomers realized the solar system is full of dwarf planets. Recent ...

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

This time, building on existing research into space civilization exploration, I have compiled a project proposal to search ...

A Jupiter-sized world just 7.5 light-years away is cloudy, chemically complex, and, it turns out, more like home than anyone ...

New research led by the University of Michigan is helping set the stage for future observatories to characterize rocky planets outside our solar system, planets that could prove life isn't confined to ...