Earth, between sweltering Venus and frozen Mars, formed and orbits within a band where water could persist in solid, liquid, and gaseous phases. Mars had surface water, but not as much as Earth, and ...

Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have detected possible signs of gases released by volcanic activity on a ...

Nov. 13, 2024 — An asteroid struck Mars 11 million years ago and sent pieces of the red planet hurtling through space. One of these chunks of Mars eventually crashed into the Earth and is one of ...

Roughly 400,000 years after the Big Bang, the universe cooled just enough to allow photons to escape from the primordial ...

A rare solar wind event was taking place when NASA’s Voyager 2 zipped by in 1986, a study suggests, which affected what we ...

The European Space Agency (ESA) faces a crossroads as it works to prepare flights of the Vega-C and Ariane 6 as early as this ...

There's a bright "star" shining in the east after dark. It's Jupiter, which is now approaching it's biggest, brightest and ...

We've learned so much over the centuries, but science still can't definitively answer these surprisingly fundamental ...

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Our views of several planets improve this month, most notably that of Jupiter, which approaches its closet approach to Earth ...

Nov. 1, 2024 — Teams of astronomers used the combined power of NASA's Hubble and James Webb space telescopes to revisit the legendary Vega ... New ESO Image Captures a Dark Wolf in the Sky Oct ...

Despite the lack of a dedicated mission to the planet, scientists have learned plenty through ground observations and space ...