Who hasn't looked into the sky and wondered if there's life out there, somewhere, looking back at us? Is it possible there's ...

The solar system holds extraordinary wonders, from Voyager 1’s historic journey into interstellar space after traveling ...

While Mars today only has a wispy remnant of an atmosphere, it may once have had one hundreds of times thicker with a ...

Curiosity Point 1: A catastrophic event turned Venus into a hellish world?

A research team led by geophysicists at UC San Diego's Scripps Institution of Oceanography provides an explanation for ...

A research team led by geophysicists at UC San Diego’s Scripps Institution of Oceanography provides an explanation for ...

Until recently, we could only study geology by looking at rocks on Earth and the Moon —well, and the rare meteor or two that ...

In the search for habitable exoplanets, atmospheric conditions play a key role in determining if a planet can sustain liquid ...

For decades, the search for alien intelligence has revolved around the question: if someone out there is listening, how could ...

Last week NASA announced the "clearest sign of life that we've ever found on Mars". Amazing news, or a "crushing blow" for humanity?

NASA’s IMAP mission, led by Princeton University’s David McComas, will study the heliosphere — the invisible electromagnetic ...

Today, let's talk about an incredibly mysterious celestial body in the solar system — Sedna. Did you know that it takes Sedna about 11,000 years to complete one orbit around the Sun? It leisurely ...