The goal should be a new golden rule linking the search for life elsewhere to the spread of life beyond the bounds of Earth.

The potential for sending payloads and people to Mars is therefore becoming plausible in a way that it never has before. Mars ...

In 2026, there will be journeys to the moon and Mars, new visions of the cosmos and a solar eclipse that might be worth ...

Kicking off the year’s cosmic wonders is the moon, drawing the first astronauts to visit in more than 50 years as well as a caravan of robotic lunar landers including Jeff Bezos’ new supersized Blue ...

The University of Arizona's OSIRIS-APEX spacecraft only made it home once in 2025, but at least it got some nice snapshots ...

Built to last, NASA’s Perseverance rover continues its long journey across Mars, collecting samples and revealing the ...

Picture this. You're sitting at breakfast, scrolling the news, when suddenly headlines scream that a space rock the size of a football stadium is barreling toward Earth. Your coffee goes cold. Your ...

NASA has lost contact with its MAVEN spacecraft that has been orbiting Mars for more than a decade. Here's what we know.

Kendra Pierre-Louis: For Scientific American’s Science Quickly, I’m Kendra Pierre-Louis, in for Rachel Feltman. In July of 2020, NASA engineers sent a rover named Perseverance hurtling into space. And ...

The Hubble Space Telescope has captured a new image of the interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS. 3I/ATLAS is the third-ever object discovered that originated from outside our solar system. The comet is not a ...