"We could determine the mass of the Himalayas using atoms," Jason Hyon, chief technologist for Earth Science at NASA's Jet ...

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

A chemical called dimethyl sulfide popped up in an analysis of exoplanet K2-18b’s atmosphere. On Earth, it’s only made by ...

New JWST data strengthens earlier hints that K2-18b, a possible water world 120 light-years away, could host the chemical byproducts of life.

Astronomers claim they've found the most promising signs of possible life on a planet outside of our solar system.

The dream of finding life on an alien Earth-like world is hampered by a number of technical challenges. Not the least of ...

Researchers successfully made miso on the International Space Station (ISS). They found that the miso smelled and tasted similar to miso fermented on Earth ... influence the design of new ...

Chop Shop on Tuesday (April 8) began seeking fans of robotic satellites and interplanetary spacecraft to help them create a ...

Editor’s note: A version of this story appeared in CNN’s Wonder Theory science newsletter ... when the moon moves between the sun and Earth but the celestial bodies aren’t completely ...

Fram2 will be the first crewed mission to orbit over Earth ... space—something I never imagined I would explore.” Over their three- to five-day mission, the Fram2 crew will carry out 22 ...

It's intended as a way to station space vehicles to quickly counter orbital threats. During the last century, as wars raged on the surface of the Earth, space was seen as something of a sanctuary ...

Real-life asteroids don’t come hurtling toward Earth from the outer reaches of space the way they do in the movies. They tend to orbit elliptical paths around the sun, passing within sight of ...