Space

A massive dust storm on Mars is threatening NASA's Opportunity rover, which has been conducting research on the Red Planet for well over a decade.

Scientists reported Thursday that NASA's Curiosity rover has found potential building blocks of life in an ancient Martian lakebed.

Bean was the lunar module pilot on Apollo 12, which made the second moon landing in 1969.

An especially carnivorous supermassive black hole sitting at the center of a galaxy is gobbling galactic gases at an astonishing rate ...

Is the current volcanic activity in Hawaii possible elsewhere in the solar system? Mercury, Venus, and Mars no longer have volcani ...

NASA's InSight lander is on its way to Mars, after a successful launch on Saturday morning.

Guests: Alan Stern, David Grinspoon NASA’s New Horizons spaceship launched in 2006 to visit tiny Pluto at edge ...

Newly discovered? A purple planet! Actually, the color suggestion is just speculation based on the planet’s expected chemical compo ...

A critical part of NASA's next $2 billion rover mission to Mars broke during testing earlier this month.

Our sun, like so many others, was born as part of a cluster of stars. Sibling stars have the same chemical composition and can be discove ...

Tess — short for Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite — will spend two years searching for planets.

Scientists at the University of Washington have developed the tech to ‘see’ what could be a low-mass particle responsible for ...

A New Jersey lawmaker wants to ensure that parents are better sports at their children's games.

Astronomers have detected a galaxy that seems to be devoid of dark matter. That possibility has theorists re-evaluating gravity’s r ...

The Dwarf planet Ceres is showing signs of cryoactivity and…water(ice)! Sodium carbonate, a mineral seen by the Dawn spacecraft in ...