Since the 1990s, astronomers have found a handful of other dwarf planets in the belt, such as Eris and Sedna, along with ...

The Science: Europa has been considered as a top contender for alien life for even longer than Enceladus, thanks to its ...

You don't need a rocket ship to visit another world. Right here on planet Earth, there are bizarre landscapes that defy ...

NASA's Magellan orbiter launched from Florida in 1989 helped scientists discover a vast underground lava tube on Venus in a major first.

A new paper suggests that BARSOOM may have been alive on the planet, and was killed in the Viking experiments.

For millions of years, a frozen wanderer drifted between the stars before slipping into our solar system as 3I/ATLAS—only the ...

Organic compounds found in Mars rocks are too abundant to rule out the possibility of Martian life in the red planet’s history, NASA scientists say. In March of 2025, NASA’s Curiosity rover ...

Astronomers are tracking a visitor called 3I/ATLAS, the third confirmed interstellar object ever observed. The two previous instances were 1I/’Oumuamua in 2017 and 2I/Borisov in 2019. 3I/ATLAS is ...

NASA's Perseverance rover, launched in Florida, discovered bleached rocks on Mars, providing new evidence that the planet was once wet and habitable.

Using NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), an international team of astronomers has discovered a new ...

An image taken by NASA's Curiosity rover shows its LED lights lighting up a hole it drilled into the surface of the rock.