NASA’s Perseverance rover examines a complex Martian rock, collects rare minerals, and sets a new driving record.

Researchers find a mineral called djerfisherite in a Ryugu grain, which supposedly forms in circumstances that the asteroid ...

According to Live Scence, the planet’s shadow was first spotted in 2021 in data taken by the European Space Agency’s Gaia ...

NASA confirmed a meteor entered Earth's atmosphere over Georgia, disintegrating with energy equivalent to 20 tons of TNT.

Astronomers discovered that C/2014 UN271, a massive comet more than 10 times larger than any known comet, is emitting jets of ...

Reaching Iran's most fortified nuclear enrichment site is a challenge, even for the world's biggest conventional weapons.

A day on Saturn lasts about 10.7 hours due to its rapid rotation. It has over 140 known moons and moonlets, including Titan, which is larger than Mercury. Saturn is mostly made of hydrogen and helium, ...

The 60-meter asteroid 2024 YR4 has a 4.3% chance of hitting the Moon, potentially releasing 100 million kilograms of debris ...

Celebrate Juneteenth, stay up late at the Smithsonian’s Solstice Saturday, dance at an outdoor concert or sample barbecue on Pennsylvania Avenue.

Scientists aimed ALMA at the comet in March 2024 and saw carbon monoxide — a gas that usually doesn’t show up in observations that far away — gushing out of its surface in jets. The team also picked ...

Recent flybys of the fiery world refute a leading theory of its inner structure—and reveal how little is understood about ...

NASA's Curiosity rover drills into Mars' surface again, revealing ancient mudstone that hints the Red Planet once had water—and maybe even life.