This explorer spacecraft is heading to a rare asteroid with a naked metal core. It could hold clues to how Earth began ...

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"The extraordinary results are an essential step toward understanding the initial conditions that lead to the formation of ...

With a spectacular array of galaxies and nebulas, the ambitious telescope begins its 10-year survey of the cosmos.

Southwest Research Institute has collaborated with Yale University to summarize the scientific community's notable progress ...

Moving from the outer layer inward, the first layer is the corona — the outermost part of the sun’s atmosphere that is ...

No telescope has basked in the night sky quite like this before. Here's what it could reveal about the universe.

If you looked at the churning clouds near Jupiter’s pole, they appear like ocean currents on Earth — as if you’re looking at ...

Radar and gravity records from NASA’s Magellan orbiter show that Venus' surface is still shifting and is not geologically ...

NASA is making new discoveries across the solar system, including on Saturn’s moon Titan. Now, the search for life in the ...

Astronomers using the «James Webb» telescope have obtained a unique image of the exoplanet 14 Herculis c, which turned out to ...