Mark Carney, the Canadian prime minister, said the world is now at a point ‘that comes once or twice a century.’

While parked at a sand ridge nicknamed “Chocolatal,” NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover used its black-and-white navigation cameras to capture panoramas at two times

The canceled Star Trek series is back on the charts.

Look up. With any luck, and a telescope, the asteroid Mariekschmidt may drift into view. “It’s cool,” says its namesake Mariek Schmidt. “In planetary science and astronomy, it's a relatively common re...

An out-of-control SpaceX rocket that crashed into the moon earlier this week did, in fact, leave an impact crater, according to images from a Korea AeroSpace Administration lunar orbiter that caught before-and-after photographs

The price tag doesn't include the cost of the science mission the new spacecraft would ferry to the Red Planet.

It’s the first potentially habitable world known to host an atmosphere, making it a lead contender in the search for life beyond our solar system.

An odd-looking series of polygon-shaped structures have been discovered on Mars, as revealed in new images obtained by NASA’s Curiosity Rover.

Written by William Farrand, Senior Research Scientist, Space Science Institute

An instrument on the Perseverance rover has identified large, complex carbon compounds alongside unusual patterns on the surface of rocks that resemble traces of microbial activity

The JWST thermal emission spectrum of the rocky exoplanet LHS 3844 b points to a dark, basalt-like surface shaped by space weathering. The data provide tight limits on CO2 and SO2, ruling out a substa...

Written by William Farrand, Senior Research Scientist, Space Science Institute

After years of lab work, the results are in: A rock that NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover drilled and analyzed in 2020 includes the most diverse collection of

A paper in press in the Journal of Geophysical Research uses new data from Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter to update our story for the history of the Moon's…