Mars didn’t always look like the barren world we see today. Over billions of years, the Sun’s solar wind stripped away much of its atmosphere, helping transform it from a warmer, wetter planet into a ...

After a yearslong series of setbacks, NASA’s Escape and Plasma Acceleration and Dynamics Explorers, or ESCAPADE, mission has finally begun its roundabout journey to Mars. Launched on Nov. 13, 2025, ...

SpaceX launches, NASA's Artemis II mission and a planetary collision are among the latest news updates in FLORIDA TODAY's 321 ...

NASA has launched hundreds of missions, but a small number genuinely reshaped how we understand space. These missions did more than reach distant places. They gave scientists entirely new ways to ...

NASA’s new ESCAPADE mission is set to uncover the mysteries of Mars’ atmospheric loss, offering crucial insights into how the planet evolved from a potentially habitable world to the dry, barren ...

NASA's DART mission didn’t just change the orbit of Dimorphos, the asteroid it hit. It changed the orbit of the larger ...

Amid a new wave of interest in the possibility of life on other worlds, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and NASA are embarking on a new effort to identify planets with the basic compounds for ...

New images from NASA's DART asteroid-smashing mission show space rocks exchanging material in a slow process that reshapes ...

NASA is achieving new heights in technology as new, robust electronics can operate in vastly harsher planetary conditions.

Relative sizes of the newly discovered habitable-zone planets and Earth. Left to right: Kepler-69c, Kepler-62e, Kepler-62f and Earth (except for Earth, these are artists' renditions). Image credit: ...

A small space telescope with the eyes of a giant will spend the next year studying the planets around distant stars, and the University of Arizona will serve as mission control. The refrigerator-sized ...

Boise State researchers are part of the team behind the Earth Dynamics Geodetic Explorer, or EDGE, a satellite mission concept aimed at monitoring Earth’s land, ice and coastal regions that NASA ...