If it weren't for the new budget, New Horizons could keep exploring the outer reaches of the solar system into the 2030s.

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New research shows that ice in space, once thought to be fully amorphous, may contain up to 25% tiny crystalline structures—altering theories on planet formation and the delivery of life’s building ...

In a historic milestone for space exploration, NASA’s Parker Solar Probe has delivered the closest-ever images of the Sun — a blistering 3.8 million miles from its roiling surface. The new images ...

Alone among known planets, Earth has vast oceans on its surface and its landmasses are marked with lakes and extensive river drainage systems. Water is the biosphere's lifeblood, and without it, Earth ...

An animation using data from the European Space Agency (ESA) allows you to "listen" to Earth's magnetic field being disrupted ...

Indian astronaut Shubhanshu Shukla made history by becoming the first Indian to step aboard the International Space Station and recently returned to Earth. His inspirational quotes from space reflect ...

WASP-121b, an already unusual planet, might have a remote origin that explains some of its peculiar properties—from iron rain ...

There's a broad consensus in the scientific community that a follow-up mission to Pluto should be an orbiter, and not a ...

The newfound exoplanet, called Kepler-139f, is a gigantic world roughly twice the mass of Neptune and 35 times the mass of ...

The last full reversal took place approximately 780,000 years ago - leaving some experts to predict another flip is imminent.