Earth may have won a cosmic chemistry lottery. Researchers found that during the planet’s earliest formation, oxygen had to be in an extremely narrow “Goldilocks zone” for two life-essential elements, ...

Christina Koch made history this week, becoming the first woman to travel around the moon. The NASA astronaut’s lunar flyby ...

Our breakdown of 7 hidden science lessons in the stunning photo taken by an astronaut on the Artemis II mission.

Dr. Marvel was, until recently, a research scientist at the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies. Artemis II’s journey ...

Plate tectonics is not just about earthquakes and volcanoes. It is deeply connected to the conditions that made life possible on Earth, shaped continents, regulated climate, and drove the recycling of ...

When astronomers announced Kepler-452b, they were not just adding another distant world to a growing catalog. They were pointing to a planet that orbits a star much like our own, in a region where ...

Earth's core cannot be made just of iron — it also appears to contain carbon. And our research suggests it may contain a bit of oxygen and possibly silicon as well. When you purchase through links on ...

The JWST discovers an impossible anomaly on TOI-5205 b and challenges everything we thought we knew about giant planets.

Amid the cold silence of the main belt, a giant rock drifts through space. It has existed for billions of years unchanged, but today, it will be irrevocably broken. Another rocky object hurtles toward ...

The South Atlantic Anomaly, a huge weak spot in the geomagnetic field off South America, has expanded and sprouted a lobe in the direction of Africa over the past decade. When you purchase through ...