A flat earth activist recently tried to discredit NASA by circulating a doctored space photo, only to be exposed by the very ...

China has just notched a space achievement that quietly shifts the balance of exploration. By bringing back the first rocks ever collected from the Moon’s Far Side and pairing that feat with a surge ...

An artist's conception shows a nuclear power plant on the moon. (Lockheed Martin Illustration) Almost 60 years after America ...

The Catalyst, first published by Scion in 1951, is classic science fiction: explorers bring a mysterious rock from Mercury to ...

An exoplanet called HD 137010 b might be the closest thing astronomers have ever seen to “Earth 2.0.” The trouble is that ...

Greek writer and philosopher Nikos Kazantzakis once said, “All my life, one of my greatest desires has been to travel, to see ...

The six-year results from the Dark Energy Survey highlight unresolved tensions in standard cosmological theory.

Spanning billions of years, lunar soil could store a chemical record of ancient gases—materials that may one day support ...

When most of us look out at the ocean, we see a mostly flat blue surface stretching to the horizon. It's easy to imagine the ...

A trio of ancient mesas is rewriting what we know about wind, sand, and deep-time geology, captured in stunning detail from space.

The feeling of awe and planetary connection experienced by astronauts observing Earth from low space orbit is known as the "overview effect," a term coined by Frank White, the author of numerous books ...

This fall, students at North High School will get to speak with astronauts aboard the International Space Station.