The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has once again spotted a distant exoplanet that I have exactly zero interest in ...

Interstellar visitor 3I/ATLAS erupted with violent ice volcanoes, shifting from quiet ice ball to active body, sparking ...

A strange, gleaming rock on Mars has jolted planetary scientists out of their routines, not because it is large or dangerous, but because it appears to be wildly out of place. The object, sitting ...

On Dec. 9, 1979, scientists certified the global eradication of smallpox, a disease which killed an estimated 300 million ...

In 1941, an Alton officer directs traffic at Broadway and Piasa ...

NASA’s newest airborne sensor is taking mineral exploration to stratospheric heights, literally. Called AVIRIS-5, ...

Mars keeps refusing to behave like the dead, simple world many scientists once imagined. Each new rover trench, fractured ...

Before the ribbon cutting for the solar system walk on the Columbia Greenway Rail Trail on Nov. 29, created by Westfield High School Astronomy Club members Krystyna Goulette and Kaitlyn Goulette — ...

The third time, as the saying goes, is the charm. Only the third confirmed object ever seen passing through our solar system ...

I ATLAS interstellar comet brightens in new NASA and ESA images, revealing an active visitor and rare clues about other star ...

NASA has lost contact with one its three spacecraft orbiting Mars, the agency announced Tuesday. Meanwhile, a second Mars ...