Mars shines in the evening, and is joined briefly by Mercury. Jupiter joins Venus as the month goes on. And all month, look ...

Written by Scott VanBommel, Planetary Scientist at Washington University in St. Louis Curiosity was back at work on Monday, ...

A new NASA study reveals a surprising way planetary cores may have formed—one that could reshape how scientists understand the early evolution of rocky planets like Mars. Conducted by a team of ...

On Earth, if you go outside and touch the ground and dig, you can expect to hit dirt or sand. But on the Moon, you would encounter something a bit different: lunar regolith. The tiny particles that ...

The Discovery A newly discovered planetary system, informally known as 2M1510, is among the strangest ever found. An apparent planet traces out an orbit that carries it far over the poles of two brown ...

Love Ham Radio? The HamSCI project fosters collaboration between amateur radio operators and professional researchers. Its goals are to advance scientific research and understanding through amateur ...

How does life that’s evolved here on Earth react to the radiation-rich, gravity-poor environment of space? It’s an important question to ask before we send people to Mars or anywhere else in the solar ...

Zooming in on Bennu samples A top-down view of one of the containers holding rocks and dust from asteroid Bennu, with hardware scale marked in centimeters. This image was captured using manual ...

Symbols mark the locations of young, low-mass galaxies bursting with new stars when the universe was about 800 million years old. Using a filter sensitive to such galaxies, NASA’s James Webb Space ...

This artist’s concept shows what exoplanet K2-18 b could look like based on science data. K2-18 b, an exoplanet 8.6 times as massive as Earth, orbits the cool dwarf star K2-18 in the habitable zone ...

Images of the trans-Neptunian objects (TNOs) Pluto [left] and Arrokoth [right], the primary flyby targets of NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft in 2015 and 2019. NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope is ...

Figure 3. These images of Typhoon Kong-rey observed on October 29, 2024, show microwave data from TROPICS-3 . This storm formed in the Central Pacific Ocean near Guam on October 24, and tracked east, ...