Missions, discoveries, and the science of exploring our solar system and beyond.
NASA's Parker Solar Probe completed its 27th solar flyby on March 11, 2026 — flying 3.8M miles from the Sun at 430,000 mph to un…
ASU researchers built a life-detection method based on atmospheric complexity — and Earth already scores higher than every other…
A nearly Earth-sized planet was found in archived K2 data from 2017 — orbiting a bright nearby star in or near the habitable zon…
A 0.9-second gamma-ray flash, a ghost galaxy buried in a cosmic tidal tail, and a chain of stellar collisions spanning 700 million…
NASA's James Webb Space Telescope turned two powerful instruments on spiral galaxy NGC 5134 — and captured how stars are born, g…
The cosmic microwave background shows the universe is geometrically flat — but flat doesn't mean infinite. Here's why the shape …
From the Canis Major Dwarf at 25,000 light-years to JADES-GS-z14-0 at the edge of observable time, a complete scientific guide to …
A 276,691-simulation study reveals alien rocks seized by our solar system's gravity survive far longer than expected — protected…
A first-of-its-kind joint analysis of NOvA and T2K data produces the strongest evidence yet that neutrinos and antineutrinos behav…
A Canadian Space Agency research framework reveals a striking truth — the medical systems needed to keep astronauts alive on Mar…