Japan launched the $578M MMX spacecraft toward Mars on Tuesday to collect samples from its moon Phobos, aiming to return to ...

As we plan to use robotic probes such as Saildrone to explore worlds in our solar system with oceans, missions that explore Earth’s oceans can serve as important pathfinders. See also: Saildrone ...

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A space telescope built to study distant galaxies has unexpectedly discovered a comet about 810 million miles from Earth. The ...

NASA’s Venus missions are targeting launches from 2030 to 2032. Explore how DAVINCI, VERITAS, and EnVision will explore the ...

NASA’s Perseverance rover has shattered a historic space exploration record, traveling farther across another world than any ...

Derek Stein’s biophysics research at Brown, work with students and support from the University helped him launch Adept Materials and its award-winning new product, the Lilypad paint and primer system.

Uranus and Neptune are often described as planetary twins because they are similar in size and appearance. But new research ...

Our Solar System has eight planets, a few dwarf planets and more than 200 moons. But wait. Are you seeing double? Or did ...

Halley's Comet produces not one but two annual meteor showers. Its orbit comes close to Earth's at two different points, so our planet encounters the comet's debris twice each year — once during the ...

What if you made the Earth heavier? What if you added a comet to the solar system?We have created an app that lets you test ...

Our early Earth was a heavy metal album cover: a molten ball covered in a global lava ocean, spewing lethal gases while being pelted by the flaming space-rocks of our Solar System's violently chaotic ...