The Kuiper Belt is loosely defined as a doughnut-shaped swath of space beginning just beyond the orbit of Neptune and ...

NASA aims to study rocky planets similar to Earth and analyse their atmospheres for biosignatures. The James Webb Space ...

Known for their unusual, sidewinding crawl across shifting desert sands, sidewinder rattlesnakes are truly one of nature’s ...

On the Red Planet, aurorae glow green because the charged particles collide with oxygen atoms high above Mars. They may be ...

Xinting Yu, assistant professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at The University of Texas at San Antonio, is one of two recipients of the 2025 Harold C. Urey Prize. The national award from ...

In its youth, the dwarf planet Ceres may have brewed a chemical banquet beneath its icy crust.

The official number of planets outside our solar system has reached 6,000, according to space scientists. NASA's tally of ...

The official number of planets outside our solar system has reached 6,000, according to space scientists. NASA’s tally of ...

Using data from NASA’s retired InSight lander, two separate teams of researchers found evidence of a sluggish Martian mantle ...

Scientists are steadily ruling out habitable conditions on the seven planets of the star Trappist-1. On one of the worlds, a ...

Though no direct evidence of life has been found, models suggest Ceres had hot water shooting into its underground oceans ...

Planetary scientists believe they can now predict the green glow of an aurora in the night sky above Mars, and they have the images to prove it.