A young, still-forming star has been caught in the act of creating heat-born crystals and hurling them far into the cold ...

The same AI methods that power ChatGPT can now allow you to talk to the Moon Its good to be skeptical when applying ...

Christina Koch and her Artemis II crewmates have been training since 2023 for the mission that will return humans to lunar ...

Nuria Altimar, a data visualization and data portrait artist, and Fabian Wadsworth, a mixed media visual artist and poet, ...

Analog missions are designed to simulate the crew’s experience in a given mission plan. In some cases, they simulate surface ...

A recent study by geophysicists at Washington State University offers insight into how nutrients may reach the subsurface ocean of Europa, one of Jupiter’s moons and a leading candidate for ...

The US, China, India, Europe and Japan all have exciting missions on the horizon in 2026. Many of them are collaborative ...

Ocean temperatures well below freezing in Earth’s deep-past glacial phases imply some very salty waters. At the height of a planetary freeze around 700 million years ago, ocean temperatures are most ...

Europa’s buried ocean has made it one of the most exciting places to search for life beyond Earth. However, new calculations suggest its seafloor may be calm, cold, and largely inactive, with little ...

New approaches are needed to help humanity deal with climate change and other global environmental threats that lie ahead in the 21st century, according to a group of 28 internationally renowned ...

Update: A minibus spending package passed by the House of Representatives on January 8, 2026, effectively cancels the Mars Sample Return program by eliminating almost all funding for future missions.