The Artemis II mission, which could launch as early as February, is expected to send four astronauts on a trip to the moon, ...

Trump and Congress both support returning to the moon. A vibrant commercial space sector and a coalition of international ...

Mars ended NASA’s InSight mission on its own terms, not with a dramatic crash or a catastrophic malfunction, but with a slow, ...

In 2011, author Andy Weir took a bet on himself and self-published his debut novel, The Martian, online. The book ...

NASA’s Europa Clipper spacecraft has recorded important new observations of the interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS using its Southwest Research Institute-led Ultraviolet Spectrograph (UVS). In July, 3I/ATLAS ...

NASA’s Perseverance rover continues collecting and studying Mars samples as uncertainty grows over the future of the Mars Sample Return program.

NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover is continuing its mission to collect samples despite uncertainty about when or if those ...

From Viking to Perseverance, scientists have spent decades chasing chemical hints that could point to life beyond Earth.

SANTA CRUZ — Xi Zhang, a professor of Earth and planetary science at UC Santa Cruz, has discovered that an exoplanet classed ...

Tantalising signs of past microbial life showed up on Mars this year, but to truly know whether they contain the answer to ...

Artemis II will send astronauts around the moon in February-April 2026, marking NASA’s first crewed lunar mission in 53 years ...