Bill Nye, who is also known as the Science Guy, was recently awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation's highest ...

The year will kick off with a six-planet parade in January that will be visible for weeks. Eclipses and supermoons also are on tap.

In April, four astronauts will venture around the moon on Artemis II, the first crewed mission on NASA's path to establishing ...

Lunar rocks retrieved by China’s Chang’e-5 mission reveal that the moon’s magnetic field lasted much longer than scientists ...

In late December 2024 and early January 2025, a photo circulated on multiple social media sites claiming to show an ...

Ingenuity, NASA’s Mars Helicopter, surpassed expectations as the first aircraft to operate on another planet. Despite being designed for five test flights over 30 days, it completed 72 flights across ...

New research sheds light on icy ocean worlds like Jupiter's Europa, focusing on a novel thermodynamic concept called the ...

As people return from their Christmas and New Year’s holidays, India has made headlines by launching the Space Docking ...

NASA wants to return Mars samples to Earth, but budget problems and technical woes have the mission caught between a rock and ...

Water on Mars could have set off a chain ... Aug. 14, 2024 — Scientists report that rock samples from Mars' Jezero Crater contain minerals that are typically formed in water. While the presence ...

On Mercury, craters are named after “artists, musicians, painters and authors who have made outstanding or fundamental ...