A new study shows NASA’s asteroid-smashing DART mission subtly changed an asteroid system’s orbit around the Sun.

Chinese scientists working with just five grams of lunar soil from the moon’s far side have produced a cascade of findings ...

Two European Space Agency Mars-orbiting missions, the Mars Express and ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter spacecraft, watched as a powerful solar "superstorm" that ravaged Earth also struck the Red Planet. The ...

New images of Uranus show the planet in blue, the upper atmosphere in red, auroras in lighter red spots and rings in white. ESA / Webb, NASA, CSA, STScI, P. Tiranti, H. Melin, M. Zamani (ESA / Webb) ...

Could there be another planet supporting life? Carnegie Science tackles the topic for the second of its free lectures: "Planetary Habitability: The Origin of Wa ...

Venus and Saturn are due up for a visually striking event known as a planetary conjunction. Here's everything to know about ...

Anyone familiar with the search for alien life will have heard of the "Goldilocks Zone" around a star. This is defined as the orbital band where the temperature is just right for liquid water to pool ...

Beyond that, in the decades to come, we might be able to see the colours of an exoplanet’s surface, and determine if plant life might be present there. And then we can search for changes in a planet’s ...

For no explainable practical reason, humans are enamored with – and even empathetic toward – specific inanimate objects. Our ...

NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover captured a series of black and white panoramas at two times of day which were then merged ...