Despite its dry, dusty surface and thinner atmosphere, Mars may have more in common with Earth than scientists previously ...

Fifty years ago, the former Soviet Union launched a probe to Venus. However, the rocket engines shut off too early, and the ...

Drilling has already returned strong results like 14m at 3921ppm total rare earth oxides (TREO) from 1m and 37.37m at 2774ppm ...

Recent discoveries have challenged previous assumptions about the space near Earth, revealing a potential population of ...

Rare earth elements are critical to many industries—used in electric motors, medical imaging and diagnostics, oil and gas ...

Learn how planet Earth’s only natural satellite was formed, its weird features like a black sky and extreme temperatures and ...

A defunct Soviet probe designed to land on Venus will have an uncontrolled reentry this month and pieces of it may make it to ...

Earth-observing satellites reveal significant ground shift in central Myanmar following the devastating earthquakes that ...

Part of a spacecraft that has been stuck in orbit for 53 years is due to reenter Earth’s atmosphere around May 10 and could ...

The Earth started as a mixture of gas and dust around the Sun and grew as it collided with asteroids and dust particles.

Latest satellite tracking data reveals that its parachutes could already have been released after tumbling in low Earth orbit ...

Kosmos 482 —originally launched on March 31, 1972, as part of the Soviet Union's ambitious Venera program to explore Venus—is ...