The Earth's magnetic field and oxygen evolved together over 540 million years, according to a major NASA study.

The world's most expensive infrared spectrometer - the James Webb Space Telescope - is unearthing extraordinary exoplanet ...

To develop more robust next-generation aerial explorers, NASA's Mars Exploration program is turning to drones.

The giant planets weren't always where we find them today. Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune formed in a more compact ...

NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope team has released detailed plans for a major survey that will reveal our home galaxy ...

Although they are technically gas giants, Uranus and Neptune are referred to as "ice giants" due to their composition.

A stray comet from another star is swinging past Earth. Discovered over the summer, the comet known as 3I/Atlas will pass ...

While the 21st century has been bumpy, it has also ushered in monumental scientific and technological breakthroughs that have ...

Astronomers at the University of California, Santa Cruz, and UCLA will develop a next-generation instrument for detecting and ...

Simulation results show that Mars, despite its similar size to Earth, has a considerable influence on the Milankovitch cycles ...

One key component might be RNA, a molecular cousin of DNA found in every form of life on Earth, and now scientists say they have shown how it could have formed on our planet eons ago. But not everyone ...

Far below the oceans and continents we know, Earth’s deep mantle appears to have stored far more water in its early history ...