NASA's Curiosity rover has encountered patches of sharp “gator-back” rocks causing mission planners to look for a new route ...

Newly spotted asteroid 2026 JH2, which could be up to 115 feet wide, will fly past Earth closer than some satellites on ...

Named Psyche like the asteroid it’s after, the robotic explorer will slingshot past the red planet at 12,333 mph (19,848 kph) ...

NASA's Perseverance rover has spent more than three and a half years exploring Mars's Jezero Crater, building up a remarkable ...

The team recorded a total of 478 different organisms, including comb jellies, arrowworms, snailfish and shrimp. In one clip, ...

Crystals hidden in Australia’s oldest rocks have revealed new clues about how Earth and the Moon formed. The study suggests Earth’s continents didn’t begin growing until hundreds of millions of years ...

But NASA's Curiosity Mars rover spent the end of April embroiled in a much simpler problem: It got stuck in a rock. Curiosity ...

Mars has intense radiation, furious dust storms, and temperatures that plunge as low as -200 degrees Fahrenheit (-129 degrees ...

New footage shows NASA's Curiosity rover tilting, rotating and vibrating its robotic arm as mission scientists tried to ...

The White House abruptly dismissed the entire board overseeing the National Science Foundation, informing each of its 22 seated members in a terse email on Friday that they had been "terminated, ...

Voyager 1, the farthest spacecraft from our planet, has powered down another science instrument as it explores uncharted interstellar space — a move that could buy time for an ambitious attempt to ...

Dan Garisto is a science journalist in Syracuse, New York. All 22 members of the advisory board that oversees the US National Science Foundation (NSF), a leading funder of fundamental science, were ...