Astronomers have catalogued more than five thousand planets orbiting distant stars, and a handful of them defy almost ...

After spending nearly eight years crossing the inner Solar System, ESA and JAXA’s BepiColombo spacecraft has reached one of ...

Recently, NASA extended the idea of private-public partnerships to Mars. The space agency has struck a deal with Relativity ...

A radio telescope project known as the Deep Synoptic Array is moving forward. It aims to detect radio waves emitted by stars, ...

A colossal ancient collision may have left some of the Moon’s deepest secrets surprisingly close to future Artemis landing ...

The New Scientist Book Club’s read for July is Claire North’s space opera Slow Gods. In this extract from its second chapter, ...

NASA on Wednesday announced that its Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution (MAVEN) orbiter mission has ended, almost half a ...

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On Episode 215 of This Week In Space, Rod Pyle and guest co-host Susan Karlin talk with bestselling sci-fi/sci-fact author Dr ...

Days before America's 250th birthday, columnist Suzie Dills shares a peek at how early Americans used planets and constellations in their daily lives.

Almost six months after NASA lost contact with the spacecraft, the agency has declared the MAVEN satellite unrecoverable and its mission concluded.

Chemical signatures indicate the meteorite came from an early planet that met an untimely end during the formation of our solar system ...