Perseverance just landed on Mars, where it will search for signs of life. But space's cool factor doesn't begin or end there!

For four years, NASA’s planet-hunting telescope photographed the light of 2.2 million stars. The data sat in public archives, ...

Scientists have uncovered a surprising way to study the harsh space weather around young M dwarf stars. Mysterious dips in starlight turned out to be massive rings of plasma swirling in the stars’ ...

SPHERE’s detailed images of dusty rings around young stars offer a rare glimpse into the hidden machinery of planet formation. These bright arcs and faint clouds reveal where tiny planet-building ...

Four of the solar system's terrestrial planets, including Earth and a long-lost world, likely started life waltzing around the sun to a fixed rhythm, according to a new study. The findings also ...

"We used to think that only very simple molecules could be created in these clouds. But we have shown that this is clearly not the case." When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an ...

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In a new study, researchers from Penn State and NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory analyzed human deep space communications and found that human transmissions are frequently directed toward our own ...

A new Tatooine-like planet outside the solar system may orbit two failed stars, scientists reported Wednesday. Subscribe to read this story ad-free Get unlimited access to ad-free articles and ...