Death Valley gets all the headlines. Lowest point in North America, hottest place on Earth, that whole dramatic mythos of a landscape so hostile it earned its name from gold rush pioneers who barely ...

As NASA’s moon-landing plans with SpaceX hang in the balance, other bold ideas are quietly starting to take shape.

November's Sky Above episode features a supermoon, meteor shower, and interstellar comet, with experts discussing these ...

On Wednesday, the space companies owned by two of the richest people on Earth — Elon Musk’s SpaceX and Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin — submitted ideas to the space agency for a faster program to land ...

Halloween is upon us and the 2025 spooky season is abuzz with talk of three cosmic visitors — Comet Lemmon, Comet SWAN and the interstellar traveler 3I ATLAS — said to be haunting the night sky. But ...

A new race to the moon is underway; not merely to erect flags, but to prospect for and extract water and helium-3, establish nuclear power plants and capitalize on the economic and strategic ...

A growing number of Americans think the 1969 Moon landing was faked. The latest high-profile celebrity to tout this conspiracy theory is reality star Kim Kardashian. The billionaire has said she got t ...

But much is unknown about the availability of water ice on the moon, or even what data is missing that could help fine-tune ...

Tests on olivine hint that water-rich exoplanets could generate H2O internally, possibly explaining ocean worlds and even some of Earth’s early water.

Fragments of a rare type of meteorite have been found in the sample of material brought back from the lunar far side by China ...

Despite the ongoing government shutdown, NASA did manage to complete a major milestone in its effort to send astronauts back ...

Analysis of moon samples collected and returned to Earth by China's Chang'e 5 mission shows "at least one hydrous mineral, ...