A mysterious radio signal from a distant planet has sparked excitement among astronomers, hinting at the tantalizing ...

Space debris from rocket bodies orbiting Earth could pose an increased threat of striking aircraft as it falls from space, according to new research.

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The rover's 26th sample, known as "Silver Mountain," has textures "unlike anything we've seen before," NASA says.

During the Cold War, American and Soviet scientists embarked on an unprecedented quest to contact extraterrestrials. But ...

The chance of a newly discovered space rock hitting Earth in about eight years was predicted at 1.6 percent last week. Though ...

New research reveals that Earth and Mars lost essential elements due to violent cosmic collisions, not early planetary formation processes ...

One leading theory on the origins of life on Earth proposes that simple chemical molecules gradually became more complex, ...

Space agencies have systems in place to spot, track, and forecast the future orbits of potentially hazardous asteroids.

Understanding where Earth's essential elements came from—and why some are missing—has long puzzled scientists. Now, a new ...

With its glaciers and sub-zero temperatures, Antarctica hardly seems like a place of refuge. However, the now icy continent ...

NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission delivered samples from asteroid Bennu, revealing crucial molecules linked to life, including amino ...