Alyssa Carson is a real person and 23 years old at the time of this writing. She was training to become an astronaut and ...
Celestial Mystery Mysteries abound on the planet Mars — from the tantalizing traces of ancient riverbeds on its surface to ...
Perseverance will stay on Mars forever, but the majority of its carefully packaged samples are meant to return to Earth. The ...
The incoming comet Tsuchinshan–ATLAS might become as brilliant as Venus during its close approach to Earth this fall, ...
NASA is actively working to return surface samples from Mars in the next few years, which they hope will help us better ...
Getting humans to Mars has been on the minds of leading scientists and engineers since the '50s, but for one reason or ...
An artist’s rendition of newly discovered, and possible “evil twin” to Earth, Gliese 12 b, which is 40 light-years away and ...
The technology behind the two seismometers that make up NASA's Farside Seismic Suite was used to detect more than a thousand ...
HOPE is quickly fading for Earth’s last-remaining Venus mission, after controllers lost contact with the Japanese spacecraft ...
Despite a flurry of online reports about a "planetary parade" of six worlds aligning on June 3, only two planets will be ...
In the following excerpt from his book, Shindell looks back at the accomplishments of the past 20 years, when NASA’s plucky ...
The giant impact that formed the Moon may also have led to extrastrong mantle plumes that enabled the first subduction event, ...