We knew from prior analyses that a distant asteroid sampled in 2020 carried all but one of the molecules needed to kick-start ...

For decades, astronomers have detected an unusual mix of ionised gas in the local clouds. Roughly 20% of hydrogen and 40% of ...

Scientists mapped ancient Martian rivers and drainage basins, revealing past water flows and habitable environments of Mars’s climate and geological history.

A new crew is heading to the International Space Station, just in time for Thanksgiving, to continue important research.

To catch the Geminids peak, look to the eastern sky all evening on Dec. 13 and Dec. 14. The meteors will appear near the bright planet Jupiter. With the darkest possible skies, you could see up to 120 ...

December is an exciting month for those who like to look up, with a comet, a meteor shower, and a conjunction between the ...

The Full moon, the Yule Moon, is on December 4. This is a supermoon, the second largest of 2025. The next evening, the moon ...

Rather than big bolts of lightning as seen on Earth, NASA’s Perseverance rover recorded audio of small zaps similar to those ...

Earth may have a moon today because a nearby neighbor once crashed into us, a new analysis of Apollo samples and terrestrial ...

Harvard astrophysicist Avi Loeb warns that the interstellar object 3I/ATLAS might be a deliberately steered alien probe—an ...

An international team including astronomers from the University of Geneva (UNIGE) and the National Center of Competence in ...