In the new images, the nebula’s buckyballs are prominent, concentrated in the spherical shell immediately around the central ...

An accounting of all the water that should have been and gone on Mars’s surface has come up with a discrepancy that shows just how little we understand the Red Planet’s hydrological history A billion ...

Karoline Leavitt says the Trump administration will likely investigate a string of mysterious deaths and disappearances of ...

"Please make Pluto a planet again. I really want it to be a planet again," Kayla begins, eliciting a response from the NASA ...

The scientific wonderers at What If evaluate the low-gravity mining and the pressurized habitats needed to turn a giant space rock into a new home.

After a 10-year-old wrote to NASA begging for Pluto to be re-instated as a planet, Administrator Jared Isaacman appears to be ...

The global climate has changed drastically over the course of the 58 years that separate these two photographs of planet Earth.

On January 1, 1801, a Sicilian astronomer named Giuseppe Piazzi discovered the dwarf planet Ceres orbiting the sun between Mars and Jupiter. At the time, Ceres was considered to be a planet. But after ...

The article details an observation opportunity for dwarf planet 1 Ceres, which will appear at 9th magnitude within the constellation Cetus. Ceres will form a temporary optical double system with a ...

The Panel on Ocean Worlds and Dwarf Planets is one of six panels providing topical input to the Planetary Science and Astrobiology Decadal Survey Steering Group. This panel will discuss the role ...

A new analysis of known exoplanets has revealed that Earth-like conditions on potentially habitable planets may be much rarer than previously thought. The work focuses on the conditions required for ...

In an ancient star system expected to be stable and dormant, scientists found a 3 billion-year-old white dwarf star still tearing apart massive quantities of rock. “The rate we’ve seen rock consumed ...