A new international study published in Earth and Planetary Science Letters reveals that the boundaries between geological ...

Most cosmic dust exhibits random atomic structures, and appears like soot. Thanks to NGC 6302’s extreme stellar energy, the ...

Asteroids have long been described as the leftover pieces from the solar system’s early construction. They are like the ...

NASA scientists found old collision pieces on Mars. These pieces are deep inside Mars. They show big crashes from long ago. Mars is like a time capsul ...

The task helps them survey the vast landscapes of the universe — from the Earth to the moon — in a space known as the Heat ...

REx, NASA's first asteroid sample return mission, reveals why some gray asteroids reflect light at different wavelengths, ...

Two very different asteroid families may share the same ancient roots, linked by a rare mineral fingerprint and revealed ...

Tucson planetary scientist Faith Vilas is this year’s recipient of the prestigious Gerard P. Kuiper Prize from the American ...

Ari Koeppel is a Postdoctoral Scientist in Earth and Planetary Science at Dartmouth College. Koeppel receives funding from NASA.

The U.S. planetary science community is sounding the alarm about plans to discard a nuclear technology that has powered dozens of NASA missions over the past 50 years ...

"One of the things that we're able to do now that wasn't possible in the '70s, when the museum first opened, is to create ...

Six planets will be visible in our skies for the next few days in the last “planetary parade” of 2025. Jupiter, Mercury, ...