A planetary scientist walks through the sensors and systems that went into the recent detection of potential biosignatures.

The House committee met to discuss the commerce, justice, and science budget bill, which allocates funding to federal ...

The two main components of the Plato spacecraft were recently mated in the clean room of OHB in Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany. On ...

When engineers at a control center in Turin, Italy, sent a faint radio signal into space, they set off a world-first ...

"This is four times more people than saw Neil Armstrong walk on the moon. Think about what a world event this is going to be." ...

NASA released Sept. 21 an image of Neptune taken by the James Webb Space Telescope, showing storms in the planet's atmosphere and its ring system. Credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI HELSINKI — Scientists ...

Over recent decades, human exploration of planetary bodies has evolved into a complex, multidisciplinary endeavour that combines human ingenuity with advanced technology. Pioneering missions have ...

NASA's search for evidence of past life on Mars just produced an exciting update. On Sept. 10, 2025, a team of scientists ...

Experiments on Earth indicate some common species of bacteria and fungi could survive for several days on the moon's surface, ...

Ukrainian defense forces destroyed a giant radio telescope in Crimea, a powerful planetary transmitter once used to support ...

NASA's Lunar Trailblazer spacecraft was intended to orbit the moon to map the concentrations and form of water. Credit: Lockheed Martin WASHINGTON — NASA has formally ended a lunar orbiter smallsat ...