Andy Weir’s bestselling story The Martian predicts that by 2035 NASA will have landed humans on Mars three times, perfected return-to-Earth flight systems and collaborated with the China National ...

Martian Moon Deimos Might Have Reshaped Itself and Its Orbit: Dr. Matija Ćuk, SETI Institute research scientist, and collaborators propose that Mars’s smaller moon may have undergone repeated ...

The dazzling lights of the aurora are created when high-energy particles from space collide with Earth's atmosphere. While ...

The first false-color image from ESA's newly operational Biomass satellite shows off a unique perspective of the rainforests, ...

A long-standing idea in planetary science is that water-rich meteorites arriving late in Earth's history could have delivered a major share of Earth's water. A new study by Universities Space Research ...

NASA is ending financial support for several planetary science groups as part of a broader drawdown of the agency’s advisory ...

Researchers discovered a new field of ancient tektites in South Australia, revealing a long-forgotten asteroid impact. These 11-million-year-old glass fragments differ chemically and geographically ...

Ancient Moon dust, meteorite traces and Apollo samples are helping NASA scientists rethink where Earth’s water truly came ...

The familiar gray disk in our sky has long been framed as a fossil world, frozen in time since the early days of the solar system. A growing body of evidence now paints a very different picture, one ...

A science historian looks to the past to understand our current moment, and how ghostwriting in scientific papers is harming ...