New research shows that an intense regional dust storm transported unusually high amounts of water vapor into Mars’ upper atmosphere, boosting hydrogen escape. The discovery reshapes understanding of ...

An international team of astronomers has discovered a distant planetary system that challenges long-standing theories of how ...

The Apollo missions changed how scientists understand the moon. Returning with Artemis could help solve some of the biggest lunar mysteries.

Scientists suspect that a rapidly spinning, highly magnetic neutron star, or "pulsar," dwells at the heart of the Milky Way.

6 planets will align in a 'planet parade' Saturday, Feb. 28, 2026, shortly after sunset. Here's which planets you might see and how to best view them.

The Caltech professor on using AI to harness the power of enzymes — and what US funding cuts could mean for research ...

Strange spikes in the Earth's natural vibrations may be causing many to lose sleep, have brain fog, and have painful ringing in their ears.

For decades, scientists have believed that complex life began when two very different microbes joined forces, eventually ...

"Uranus's magnetosphere is one of the strangest in the solar system," Paola Tiranti, a researcher at Northumbria University in the U.K., said in a statement. "It's tilted and offset from the planet's ...

This month, Scripps Institution of Oceanography alumna and NASA astronaut Jessica Meir embarked on her second journey to the ...

Out in the Kuiper Belt, the massive doughnut of debris beyond Neptune, about one in 10 kilometer-scale objects have surprised scientists with their unexpected shape. Rather than resembling a ball, ...