The Artemis II mission, which could launch as early as February, is expected to send four astronauts on a trip to the moon, ...

How did life begin on Earth? While scientists have theories, they don't yet fully understand the precise chemical steps that ...

A surprising new theory claims Earth’s building blocks were supernova ice, not stardust. This could change everything.

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Scientists are digging into the hidden makeup of carbon-rich asteroids to see whether they could one day fuel space ...

A soldier returned from the Sahara desert in 1916 with a wild story about a meteorite that dwarfed all others. Over 100 years ...

Astronomers are thrilled by new Hubble images of interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS, revealing two distinct jets of material ...

Two of NASA’s longest-running space missions, Voyager 1 and Voyager 2, have detected a searing-hot region of space where the ...

The discovery is the first direct observational confirmation of a theory for how young stars feed on, and then explosively ...

When you look up at the night sky, planets seem calm and fixed. But a new study shows that nearby planetary systems can be violent and chaotic. Using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers have ...

From Viking to Perseverance, scientists have spent decades chasing chemical hints that could point to life beyond Earth.

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