Is Earth really exceptional?  A new book seems to reaffirm that notion.  But given the right conditions, primitive life may be a mere byproduct of biophysics.

On this day 35 years ago, NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft took a picture that changed how we see our planet. The iconic "Pale ...

On the world's first Asteroid Day, Nina Burleigh discovers that Nasa has already commissioned a team of 'planetary defenders' ...

Five years ago, NASA provided an updated version of the Pale Blue Dot. JPL engineer Kevin M Gill reprocessed the image with modern tools but following the original approach, even receiving inputs from ...

Every year, thousands of kids and adults learn to fold and fly paper airplanes at both the National Mall building and the ...

2024's gigantic solar storm gave the Earth two new temporary radiation belts, according to NASA's CubeSat mission. One of these belts could stay in place for a "very long time", according to NASA ...

Though an older read by now, the book remains an essential ... twin who stayed on earth to help research better understand the long-term impacts of life in space. Robert Kurston reflects in ...

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One way to simplify things is by buying a classic bunch of tulips. This is the only flower mass-grown in the United States in ...

NASA astronauts Sunita "Suni" Williams and Barry "Butch" Wilmore have been on the International Space Station since June, ...

If you want to explore space with humans, water becomes one of the most critical commodities,” explains Mahesh Anand, a professor of planetary science and exploration at the ...

For most of history, the Moon was regarded as a mysterious and powerful object. Then scientists made it into a destination ...