Metal spheres recently found on a beach in northern Queensland, Australia, draw attention to the worsening issue of space ...
NASA is preparing for a rescue that sounds more like a stunt than routine mission control: send a robot into orbit, find an ...
The use of lunar resources could "completely change the energy situation on Earth," a former NASA adviser told Newsweek.
NASA prepares a robotic mission to rescue the aging Swift telescope before orbital decay brings the observatory back to Earth ...
A newly discovered underwater volcanic eruption north of Papua New Guinea is unfolding in one of the world's most poorly mapped ocean basins. Satellites have spotted steam plumes, ash, thermal ...
Astronomers have revised the mass of nearby exoplanet GJ 3378 b, recasting it as a rocky super‑Earth in the habitable zone ...
The alpha Capricornids and the Southern Delta Aquarids meteor showers will be active simultaneously in July. Here's how to ...
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Elon Musk’s Mars illusion

A look at the science behind Elon Musk's goal of a million-person city on Mars, and why planetary scientists say terraforming the planet to make it habitable would take centuries, if it's possible at ...
The alpha Capricornids and the Southern Delta Aquarids meteor showers will be active & peak simultaneously in July. Here's ...
(Mark Garlick/Science Photo Library/Getty Images) If potted plants always seem to die under your care, you can take solace in ...
A Chinese spacecraft on a mission to collect and return samples of a near-Earth asteroid beamed back its first image of its ...