A northern summer dust storm on Mars boosted high-altitude water escape, suggesting short-lived events may play a bigger role in water loss.

I've read that the planned crewed Mars missions will take six months or two years to arrive. Which is it? Could a longer trip ...

As part of an effort to bring the study of space radiation in-house, SpaceX is now developing its own particle accelerator in Florida.

The candidate is coined HD 137010 b. It would orbit a K-type dwarf star approximately 146 light-years from Earth. The evidence comes from a single transit pattern seen in K2 data from 2017: the star ...

In the early 1960s, Dutch astronomer Adriaan Blaauw observed stars moving at unusually high speeds moving through the Milky ...

Using HARPS and HARPS-N spectrographs, astronomers have observed a nearby K-type star designated HD 176986, known to host two ...

Elon Musk’s ambition to one day settle Mars appears to have taken a back seat to a rather nearer and more achievable goal – ...

Look west just after sunset from this weekend for a chance to see some of six planets, though the best views will be had ...

February holds some spectacular sights in the night and morning sky. See what's happening in the skies over North Texas this ...

Mercury, Venus, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune are all in the evening sky, but you’ll need binoculars, timing, and a ...

The CRASH Clock is a new predictor of how much time there will be before a collision if a solar storm knocks out power and ...

Explore the solar system from Mercury to Pluto and discover the extraordinary differences in orbital speed, year length, and ...