Saturn’s rings are an arresting sight even through modest telescopes. The planet is made mostly of hydrogen and helium whereas the rings are billions of pieces of mostly bright-white water ice and ...

Their discovery showed that even tucked away in our innards – in the walls of our stomachs, subjected to vinegar-like pH ...

“New Horizons shattered a major paradigm of planetary science,” says Alan Stern, the mission’s principal investigator. “Pluto ...

By Alimat Aliyeva Japanese scientists from Kyoto University have discovered evidence of salt minerals on the asteroid R ...

Scientists explore Lost City, in the Atlantic, where chemical reactions in hydrothermal vents could explain the origin of ...

Interplanetary contamination risks from space missions and strategies to mitigate them, including the importance of ...

Explore Ceres, the largest asteroid in our solar system, and discover its remarkable ancient ocean and ice-rich crust.

Asteroids that orbit close to the Earth inevitably cause us some anxiety due to the even remote possibility of a collision.

Asteroid Bennu’s samples contain pristine salts, hinting at ancient briny environments that could have formed organic ...

Locomotion makes things move, and certain forms of locomotion make them move better than others. Those more effective types ...

To solve that problem, a team of German researchers at the Technical University in Berlin figured that, instead of having a ...

Aliens could be lurking in hard-to-reach spots on other worlds, according to a new study. The research looked at the oceans ...