NASA’s Curiosity rover made an intriguing discovery on Mars, adding another layer to our understanding of the planet’s ...
NASA’s ESCAPADE mission launched two small, affordable orbiters to Mars on Blue Origin’s New Glenn rocket. Discover how these ...
Mars keeps refusing to behave like the dead, simple world many scientists once imagined. Each new rover trench, fractured ...
NASA's Perseverance rover has just captured proof of lightning in Mars, which appears to spawn in the whirlwinds that roam its surface.
An analysis of Mars rocks suggests the Red Planet may have once resembled a tropical oasis, with warm, humid conditions and ...
The discovery of 86,276 previously undetected earthquakes beneath Yellowstone has reignited public anxiety about the park’s ...
The interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS has started to brighten and dim in a remarkably steady rhythm, repeating every 16.16 hours as ...
The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has once again spotted a distant exoplanet that I have exactly zero interest in ...
The third time, as the saying goes, is the charm. Only the third confirmed object ever seen passing through our solar system ...
Far below the familiar blue of the oceans, scientists are uncovering evidence of a vast hidden reservoir of water locked inside the rocks of Earth’s mantle. Rather than a single underground sea, this ...
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 ...
Opening with a thought‑provoking quote, mission scientist Luther Beegle noted, “Every rock on Mars has a story, but some tell ...