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Scientists spot super-Earth planet in Earth-like orbitScientists suspect they have identified an intriguing new alien planet in a particularly roundabout way.
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Russia wants to land 3 next-generation Luna spacecraft on the moon by 2025Russia hasn't been to the moon since 1976, but the country hopes to soon pick up where it left off.
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Chaos reigns in detailed new views of Jupiter's icy moon EuropaScientists have gotten their best look to date at three chaotic patches on the icy surface of Jupiter's moon Europa thanks to decade-old images from a long-defunct spacecraft.
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Black hole keeps snacking on white dwarf locked in its orbitThis black hole's parents never told it not to play with its food.
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Mercury probe snaps stunning photos of our planet during Earth flybyA spacecraft bound for Mercury beamed home stunning views of Earth during a crucial flyby conducted early today (April 10).
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1,400-year-old mystery of strange 'red sign' in Japan's sky solvedA scarlet fan spread across the skies over Japan 1,400 years ago, and it's been puzzling astronomers ever since.
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Old gas blob from Uranus found in vintage Voyager 2 dataBuried inside data Voyager 2 gathered at Uranus more than 30 years ago is the signature of a massive bubble that may have stolen a blob of the planet's gassy atmosphere.
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Italy's coronavirus response dramatically reduces air pollution emissions, satellites showAs the world scrambles to confront the disease caused by a novel coronavirus, Italy has been forced to take such dramatic measures that the country's emissions have changed, as seen from space.
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Scientists just watched a newfound asteroid zoom by Earth. Then they saw its moon. -
2019 Was the Second Hottest Year on Record, NASA SaysIt's the award no one wanted to win: 2019 was the second hottest year on record, government scientists confirmed yesterday (Jan. 15).
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It's Official: Vera Rubin Observatory Named to Honor Dark Matter ScientistA U.S. facility — designed in part to solve the mysteries of dark matter — now officially carries the name of the scientist who concluded that the elusive substance must exist.
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NASA's Martian Mole Is Digging AgainThe troubled "mole" on NASA's InSight Mars lander is moving again, even as scientists working on the robot's seismometer ponder new marsquake mysteries.
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NASA Spots Crash Site and Debris from India's Lost Moon LanderScientists and amateurs alike have spent months combing through images from NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter looking for the remains of India's moon lander — and that search has paid off.
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Watch Clouds on Mars Drift by in Supercomputer SimulationsWeather models are a daily staple of life on Earth, but they can go interplanetary as well, sometimes with a boost from Earth's most sophisticated computers.
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Before We Find Aliens, Humans Need to Figure Ourselves Out, Anthropologist SaysHumans have questions about alien life. But those beings, if they exist, likely have some questions of their own about humans, queries we may want to answer before we find any life beyond Earth.
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Here's How NASA Might Bring Home Pieces of Mars (In a Darth Vader Helmet)Scientists studying Mars have wanted pieces of the Red Planet here on Earth for decades, and they are finally getting their shot at designing a mission to acquire such souvenirs.
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How Long Will It Take to Find Proof of Alien Life?How long until we find evidence of life beyond Earth? If a panel of experts is on track with their estimates, it may be sooner than you think.
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Israel Plans to Go Back to the Moon … And Stick the Landing This TimeIsrael had pinned its hopes on becoming the fourth country to land softly on the moon, and although the country's team failed on the first try, it still intends to try to claim that coveted title.
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2nd Interstellar Comet Looks Pretty Normal, Astronomers SayObservations of the interstellar Comet Borisov have been flooding in for six weeks, and the more astronomers duplicate one another's work, the more confident they are in their analysis of the object.
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Why the Science Community Is Upset About Who Won a Nobel — and Who Didn'tThe Nobel Prize in physics this year has gone to two very different research threads — and danced around some big societal issues, even as they celebrate distinguished work.
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India's Lost Moon Lander Is Somewhere in This PhotoIt looks like just a barren moonscape of craters, but somewhere in this image is a hunk of metal and electronics that carried a country's hopes of lunar science.
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Astronaut Snaps Photo of Her Friend's Launch Into Space. And It's Absolutely Stunning.The best view of today's crew launch turned out to be from the spacecraft's destination itself, the International Space Station.
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2nd-Known Interstellar Visitor May Have Breezed Through Our Solar SystemA bright speck in the night sky may be the second known object to hurtle through our solar system after leaving another.
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India Loses Contact with Lunar Lander During Historic MissionIndia's daring moon mission, Chandrayaan-2, lost contact just above the lunar surface, dashing Indian dreams of becoming just the fourth country to successfully land on the moon.
