A group of comets with unexplained movements presents a quandary D avide Farnocchia hunts down and tracks asteroids, and ...

An anomaly has forced the Japanese asteroid-sampling spacecraft Hayabusa2 into protective "safe mode" while journeying ...

Today’s edition of quick hits.

The new discovery in an alien planet's atmosphere showed the chemical fingerprints of gases that are only produced by biological processes on Earth.

Carolyn Porco was 13 years old when she experienced her first 'cosmic connection.' She was on a rooftop in the Bronx, of all the unlikely places, peering through a friend's telescope when she caught ...

15, 2025 — First ever supercomputer simulations of Mars with a fully molten core ... First Direct Images of Carbon Dioxide Outside Solar System Mar. 17, 2025 — The James Webb Space Telescope ...

The European Space Agency (ESA) just released some new snapshots from its Mars Express orbiter that detail the dynamic ...

A new study analyzing data from NASA's Perseverance rover has uncovered compelling evidence of multiple mineral-forming events just beneath the Martian surface -- findings that bring scientists one ...

Onboard the International Space Station (ISS), the Extant Life Volumetric Imaging System, dubbed ELVIS, is not about ...

In our solar system Earth and Mars are in the box, Venus and Mercury outside. The cold gas giants are literally off the chart. The logarithmic scale used initially here allows for an easier ...

Nell Greenfieldboyce is a NPR science correspondent. With reporting focused on general science, NASA, and the intersection between technology and society, Greenfieldboyce has been on the science ...