The answer it seems is Mars. When Musk was setting up SpaceX back in 2001, he told the founding team his dream was to ‘send ...

An image released from the European Space Agency (ESA) shows a rare perspective of Earth 180 million miles away on Mars.

October's supermoon came in closer by about 2,800 miles, marking it as the nearest of 2024. This year has featured a series ...

November brings sky watchers brilliant views, with the Northern Taurids and Leonid meteor showers peaking this week and a ...

Even from space, you wouldn’t detect something important about Earth’s shape: It’s not perfectly round. It’s actually a ...

How Life Began on Earth: Modeling Earth's Ancient Atmosphere Oct. 31, 2024 — This model reveals how vastly different the atmosphere was on ancient Earth, and how life may have first ...

The cryovolcanic "centaur" comet 29P/Schwassmann-Wachmann has erupted four times in less than 48 hours, becoming unusually ...

Earth just got an upgrade! If we made Earth 1,300 times bigger, we could make Earth the size of Jupiter. A new, super-Earth ...

Fossil of an extinct Phorusrhacid "terror bird" in the Tatacoa Desert reveals insights into ancient predators and ecosystems.

Extraordinarily well preserved fossils of feathered dinosaurs and other creatures got that way after being frozen in time by by volcanic eruptions, researchers have long suggested. Not so fast, says a ...

An asteroid the size of the Empire State Building, named Apophis, could potentially hit Earth in 2029, but scientists ...