Grab-and-go missions to asteroids have provided some of the most scientifically valuable samples since the Apollo ...

Tiny bits of Earth’s atmosphere have been drifting to the moon for billions of years, guided by Earth’s magnetic field.

On Mars, NASA’s Perseverance rover has detected chemical signatures in rocks similar to those created by microbial life on ...

Mars may be tens of millions of kilometers away, but for planetary scientists, the most revealing rehearsal space sits in the North Atlantic. Iceland’s mix of ice, fire and wind offers a rare ...

The most exciting rock known to science is a school-desk-sized chunk of mudstone currently stuck on Mars. Formed from fine, water-washed sediments on the floor of a long-lost lake—some 3.5 billion ...

Rocket Lab Corporation (NASDAQ: RKLB) stock rose Wednesday after the company advanced a South Korean Earth-imaging mission into its next available launch window. The move comes as broader investor ...

Jennifer Wang didn’t know what to think when she was told to expect big news. She and her fellow medical laboratory science students at the University of Washington were not given many details — just ...

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Earth’s magnetosphere, once thought to have a simple electric polarity pattern, has revealed a surprising twist. New satellite data and advanced simulations show that the morning side of the ...

Stronger links between researchers who work on Earth’s and other planets’ atmospheres, and between the experimental, modelling and observational communities, will help to interpret the astronomical ...