After combing through NASA's James Webb Space Telescope's archive of sweeping extragalactic cosmic fields, a small team of ...

Physicists at the University of Oxford have contributed to a new study which has found that iron-rich asteroids can tolerate ...

U.S. plans to return Mars samples face delays as China advances its own mission. Scientists and policymakers debate costs, timelines, and the role of sample return in future Mars exploration ...

NASA's Curiosity rover has sent back a striking new "postcard" from high on the slopes of the Red Planet's Mount Sharp, ...

The White House allocated just $18.8 billion to the space agency — a 24% decrease from the previous year's funding — in its ...

Using data from the James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers have identified a population of “platypus galaxies” that defy ...

If scientists are able to inspect it in person, and they find that Mars was indeed once alive with microbes, we would know ...

NASA confirmed Monday that its Perseverance Mars rover succeeded in collecting its first rock sample for scientists to pore over when a future mission eventually brings it back to Earth.

Congressional supporters of the Mars Sample Return (MSR) mission have buckled to pressure from the Trump administration to ...

Space mining often sounds like a fast route to endless metals. In practice, the first question is simple: what are small ...

And even if they were to happen across the probes, finding a way for aliens to discover where and when they were made is not ...

NASA’s Webb Telescope has identified compact, mysterious galaxies nicknamed “astronomy’s platypus.” These strange objects ...