A good satellite tracker app can turn your phone into a personal guide to the cosmos, showing you everything from the ...

Founder’s Briefs: An occasional series where Mongabay founder Rhett Ayers Butler shares analysis, perspectives and story summaries. When I think about what makes someone care about the natural world, ...

The CEO is interested in bringing back rock samples collected by the agency's Perseverance rover from the red planet after some of the samples collected by the rover contained mineral textures that ...

A research team led by geophysicists at UC San Diego’s Scripps Institution of Oceanography provides an explanation for features that characterize the surface of the solar system’s hottest planet.

Temperatures on the planet could make water theoretically possible. Astronomers are researching an Earth-like exoplanet that could contain water, according to NASA. The exoplanet, named TRAPPIST-1 e, ...

Astronomers are researching an Earth-like exoplanet that could contain water, according to NASA. The exoplanet, named TRAPPIST-1 e, is being monitored by the James Webb Space Telescope, the most ...

Scientists are observing an Earth-like exoplanet that may contain water using NASA's James Webb Space Telescope, the space agency said in a news release. The exoplanet, known as TRAPPIST-1 e, orbits ...

In recent years, scientists have learned a lot about Ceres thanks to NASA's Dawn probe, which visited the object between 2014 and 2018. One of the most intriguing discoveries from the Dawn mission is ...

From orbital maps to cloud buggies - Venus is getting a full makeover. NASA is launching VERITAS to map volcanoes and tectonics, while DAVINCI dives into the atmosphere to sample gases and image ...

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Astronomers found strong evidence that a gassy Jupiter-size world is orbiting one of three stars in the stellar system closest to our own. By Katrina Miller Alpha Centauri has gripped the imaginations ...