Watch a prototype of NASA's Volatiles Investigating Polar Exploration Rover, (VIPER) roll down a ramp to simulate its deployment on the lunar surface. Credit: NASA ...

Scientists explore the Interplanetary Habitable Zone framework to evaluate habitability beyond the Goldilocks Zone, considering energy, radiation, transport, and material factors in planetary systems.

A new study shows that, not only did the agency’s 2022 DART mission shift the orbit of the moonlet Dimorphos, it also changed the path of its parent asteroid around the sun.

Finding Earth-like planets orbiting sun-like stars and identifying signs of life such as oxygen or water is a major goal in ...

You have probably seen the list: peace lilies remove formaldehyde, snake plants filter benzene, spider plants clean carbon ...

Data from NASA's Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA) was used to create a water distribution map of the area near the moon's south pole. Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center ...

A potential new mineral on Mars forms when iron sulfates are heated above 100°C. Data from Valles Marineris regions suggest ...

Satellite images show the Sierra Nevada before and after a major heat wave melted significant portions of California's snow.

A UC Irvine-led study used international and commercial satellites to measure glaciers and found more than three-quarters of Antarctica’s coast-reaching glaciers to be stable, with the other quarter ...

In a first, a space mission led by NASA and France has tracked Earth’s rivers swelling and shrinking from month to month over the course of a year and found significantly less of a swing than previous ...

If life once existed on Mars, the most likely place to find evidence of it may be locked away in the planet’s ice.

NASA’s SPHEREx telescope detected water vapor and carbon-rich molecules from the interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS after it ...