NASA is inviting the public to take part in 36 “citizen science” projects that let volunteers contribute to real scientific ...

In this curious film, a pair of friends venture out into the desert to build an accurate to scale model of our solar system.

NASA and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration have launched three new missions to enhance our understanding of ...

About 4.6 billion years ago, our corner of space was basically just a boring cloud of gas and dust floating […] ...

Harvard astornomer Avi Loeb suggests interstellar object 3I/ATLAS could've sent off the Wow! Signal back in 1977.

Last month, Google quietly killed off Google Sky Maps. But there’s still another way to virtually explore most of the solar system a la Google Maps: it’s called Google Maps in Space. Google Maps in ...

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — The organic ingredients to life, hints to where Earth’s water came from, and the fundamental building blocks of our planet and the solar system seem like a lot to fit in 4 ...

The methane gas may constitute a rarefied atmosphere, or it may come from erupting plumes on Makemake’s surface.

The discovery that helium and iron can mix at the temperatures and pressures found at the center of Earth could settle a long-standing debate over how our planet formed. When you purchase through ...

As a NASA spacecraft whizzed away from Earth at 40,265 mph, it took a brief moment to look over its robotic shoulder at how far it's traveled. Psyche, a mission and orbiter named after its space ...

The rate of finding these distant worlds has recently increased, with astronomers scrambling to accommodate the data ...

The Erigone family of asteroids are water-rich space rocks that provide a window into the solar system's past. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s ...