Perhaps the best known of all comets is Halley, correctly pronounced so that it rhymes with rally, not daily. It is named after the 17th-18th century astronomer Edmond Halley. This ...

From Robby, the Robot in Forbidden Planet, to the infamous C-3P0 from Star Wars, the use of robots for space exploration has ...

Most meteorites are small — pebble-sized or smaller — chunks of rocky material that, in most cases, get buried in the soil or ...

Space exploration missions have revealed that polar vortices aren’t uncommon beyond Earth. They’ve been observed throughout ...

Titan, Saturn’s largest moon, has long intrigued scientists due to its nitrogen-rich atmosphere, methane lakes, and complex ...

Titan’s coastlines lack river deltas, surprising scientists and raising questions about its active surface processes.

McGee Creek State Park in Atoka, Oklahoma is exactly that kind of revelation – a sprawling 2,000-acre paradise that somehow ...

In what may be the most significant clue to alien planet life yet, scientists studying K2-18b have detected two sulfur-based ...

Fifty-one years ago this month, NASA’s Apollo 13 mission would have been the agency’s third Moon landing and lunar exploration mission. A movie and several books relate the story of this challenging ...

We are at a critical time and supporting climate journalism is more important than ever. Science News and our parent organization, the Society for Science, need your help to strengthen ...

Saturn’s largest moon might not be the barren ... But not as you'd expect. Titan’s atmosphere is thick and dense, unlike any other icy moon in our solar system. Photochemical reactions high ...

Pop star Katy Perry is set to join Blue Origin’s all-female space flight next week, and there are a surprising number of people cracking japes that they hope she doesn’t come back. Online, countless ...