This 2023 satellite photo shows New Zealand's Mount Taranaki, which is surrounded by a near-perfect circle of deformed trees.

A long-standing enigma surrounding the Crab Pulsar, a neutron star at the center of the Crab Nebula, may have been unraveled.

China is on course to retrieve a can containing Martian rock samples and bring it back to Earth. Its grand plans include a ...

"The experiments performed by NASA's Viking landers may have accidentally killed Martian life by applying too much water," ...

We’re in the midst of a rapidly escalating global plastics crisis. More than 11 billion metric tons of virgin plastics were ...

NASA scientists are hoping to understand the history of where they found the rocks — and for evidence of ancient microbial ...

SpaceX will attempt to launch and land its Starship rocket on Tuesday in another crucial test of Elon Musk’s Mars ambitions.

NASA astronaut Don Pettit captured both an aurora and a docked SpaceX Dragon spacecraft at the International Space Station ...

The largest survey of our universe ever conducted suggests that it closely matches the model most favored by cosmologists. It ...

Bomb cyclones form when warm and cold air masses collide head-on, causing pressures to drop and storms to rapidly intensify. These low-pressure zones also pull tropical moisture northward via ...

"Starlink satellites look like a miniature version of the monolith from '2001: A Space Odyssey.' " A veteran NASA astronaut caught SpaceX satellites in action from the space station. NASA astronaut ...