Grab-and-go missions to asteroids have provided some of the most scientifically valuable samples since the Apollo ...

Rocket Lab launched its 21st and final mission of the year over the weekend, sending a private Japanese Earth-observing satellite to orbit. An Electron rocket carrying the QPS-SAR-15 satellite, ...

Scientists say Earth’s magnetic field may have funneled atmospheric particles to the moon for billions of years. Lunar soil could preserve a record of Earth’s past while providing resources for future ...

How did life begin on Earth? While scientists have theories, they don't yet fully understand the precise chemical steps that ...

A giant impact on the early Earth could have brought the building blocks of RNA to our planet, which new research suggests ...

Earthquakes happen daily, sometimes with devastating consequences, yet predicting them remains out of reach. What scientists ...

WASHINGTON — A U.S. Space Force and NASA experiment lifted off from Rocket Lab Launch Complex 2 at Wallops Island, Virginia Dec. 18 at 12:03 a.m. Eastern to test a new small-satellite architecture ...

TRAPPIST-1e, an Earth-sized world in the system’s habitable zone, is drawing scientific attention as researchers hunt for signs of an atmosphere—and potentially life-supporting conditions. Early James ...

The world’s oceans are becoming dangerously acidic. A controversial proposal would raise the pH — by mixing chemicals into ...

The most exciting rock known to science is a school-desk-sized chunk of mudstone currently stuck on Mars. Formed from fine, water-washed sediments on the floor of a long-lost lake—some 3.5 billion ...

What just happened? SpaceX confirmed that one of its Starlink satellites has malfunctioned and is now descending toward Earth following what the company described as an anomaly. Elon Musk's firm ...