NASA’s official plan is to deorbit the International Space Station at the end of its life, and send it in a controlled death ...

Scientists have long debated whether most of Earth's vital liquid was delivered via icy comets or was homemade ...

Simulations suggest that two enormous masses of hot rock have been involved in generating Earth’s magnetic field and giving ...

Scientists around the world have been scrambling to fill in gaps and make space on their servers for American data sets, ...

Mars, the cold and lifeless neighbor to Earth, might seem like an unlikely candidate for beauty. But the planet has something truly strange to offer: mysterious geysers and intricate, spider-shaped ...

Dust from asteroid Bennu is revealing a surprising origin story for life’s building blocks. New research suggests some amino acids formed in frozen ice exposed to radiation, not warm liquid water as ...