Sometime before the end of the decade, a Chinese spacecraft could race toward a small asteroid at roughly nine kilometres per ...

NASA’s asteroid-hunting Psyche spacecraft recently needed a little gravitational assist from Mars to keep speeding towards ...

Eulalia asteroid bombardment: a new study identifies the Eulalia asteroid family as the source of a third wave of impacts ...

Rocky exoplanet atmosphere confirmed for the first time in a habitable zone: Harvard astronomers detected helium escaping ...

Researchers from NASA and the ESO have found a new exoplanet hidden inside one of the most photographed regions of the night ...

Terraforming Mars has crossed from science fiction to a structured scientific research agenda, according to a peer-reviewed ...

Throughout June 2026, SETI Institute scientists, affiliates, and collaborators contributed to discussions spanning ...

On July 20, 1976, Viking 1 touched down on the Red Planet, and became the first robotic spacecraft to successfully carry out ...

In a major boost to the search for life, Harvard astronomers have detected an atmosphere around a habitable-zone, Earth-like ...

On August 28, 2025, researchers aimed their equipment towards an area of sky where they expected to find the asteroid 1998 ...

A rocky planet about 49 light-years from Earth appears to have held onto an atmosphere, despite orbiting a red dwarf capable ...

A new mineral-based biosignature detection method could identify signs of life on Mars using the Perseverance Rover's ...