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

The interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS is just days away from coming as close to Earth as it will ever get. Here's how you can track ...

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.

BepiColombo will arrive in 2026 to uncover the planet Mercury, and unravel how a planet as small, dense, and in such an odd ...

NASA spacecraft Parker Solar Probe and Europa Clipper observed interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS before its close approach to Earth. Scientists are studying the data as the comet heads toward Jupiter in 202 ...

For decades, scientists have held to the idea that the Moon was formed by a single, massive impact between Earth and a ...

Astronomers discovered a new moon of Uranus and hundreds of moons around Saturn over the past year, and there may be many ...

Samples taken from the asteroid Bennu are continuing to shed light on the origins of the solar system. Scientists have been studying the samples since NASA's Osiris-REx spacecraft carried them back to ...

The mystifying 3I/ATLAS interstellar comet is blazing toward Earth and will soon come as close to our planet as it ever will.

The giant planets weren't always where we find them today. Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune formed in a more compact configuration and later underwent a violent reshuffling that scattered them to ...

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