Edgar, 40, is one of 10 people NASA has selected to join its 2025 astronaut candidate class. The selection process takes ...

The groundbreaking discovery points to the possibility of past life on Mars. A 3.5-billion-year old rock discovered on the Red Planet is "the closest we've come to discovering ancient life on Mars," ...

NASA has banned Chinese citizens with US visas from participating in agency programs — a dramatic escalation in the space race between China and the United States. It occurs as China gears up to send ...

Has NASA found life on Mars? In a word, no. But last year, NASA’s Perseverance rover found signs in an ancient rock that could point to life having existed on the Red Planet billions of years ago. And ...

In July 2024, NASA’s Perseverance rover extracted a rock core from the edge of Neretva Vallis, a river valley cut into the Martian surface by water rushing into the Jezero Crater billions of years ago ...

Webb, Hubble, and SPHEREx are joining forces to study the interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS, revealing details about its structure and chemistry. The comet isn’t dangerous, but it’s offering scientists a ...

This article was originally published at The Conversation. The publication contributed the article to Space.com's Expert Voices: Op-Ed & Insights. In a bold, strategic move for the U.S., acting NASA ...

Since its discovery in 1999, the near-Earth asteroid Bennu has captivated scientists as a time capsule from the early solar system — and also as a key to possibly understanding the origins of life. To ...

A comet known as 3I/ATLAS made news when it was confirmed to be the 3rd-ever object observed to have originated outside Earth's solar system. Though the object poses no threat to Earth, astronomers ...

Stargazers are in for a show tonight as three NASA rockets launching from Virginia should be visible in the sky above Southeastern Pennsylvania and South Jersey less than a minute after they blast off ...

Surya, an AI model developed by NASA and IBM, tries to find hidden patterns in solar data to detect solar flares and winds. NASA and IBM have released a new open-source machine learning model to help ...

A collaboration between NASA and small aerospace company Aloft Sensing has produced a compact radar system capable of detecting minute changes in Earth’s surface. The instrument, called HALE InSAR, is ...