After a decade of searching, NASA's MAVEN (Mars Atmosphere Volatile Evolution) mission has, for the first time, reported a direct observation of an elusive atmospheric escape process called sputtering.
China joins the asteroid sample return game, with the ambitious Tianwen 2 mission, which launched successfully on Thursday (local time).
The United Nations warned on Wednesday that there is a 70 percent chance that average warming from 2025 to 2029 would exceed the 1.5 degrees Celsius international benchmark.
Researchers from Nanjing University in China and the University of Bonn in Germany have run calculations suggesting we've overestimated the strength of the Cosmic Microway Background. In fact, it might not even be there at all.
Volcanoes often give little warning before they erupt, but now scientists have discovered an unexpected early warning sign—trees.
Binary star systems are pairs of stars held together by gravity, orbiting a common center of mass.
Dolphins are incredible marine mammals that have "names" for each other, just as humans do, and they use these names to chatter among themselves.
The record-breaking galaxy is revealing secrets about the first stars and their unexpected chemical fingerprints.
A US-trio appears to have discovered a distant dwarf planet with a 25,000-year orbit bringing it into the ring of icy rocks around the solar system - the Oort cloud.
A new device recently demoed by researchers was able to scan tiny individual characters of text from a distance of 1.36 kilometers.
Curiosity triggered a thought-provoking conversation about light - ultimately, why doesn't light wear out and lose energy over time?
Dangerous rocks may co-orbit with Venus, but new research suggests only a space-based mission can prove it.
New research suggests that Jupiter used to be at least twice as big as it is today . Over time, the bloated world cooled off, contracting to the relatively humbler size it is today.
The moment one galaxy spears another with a powerful beam of radiation shooting from its central black hole has been spotted in a distant galactic collision.
Scientists in China have developed contact lenses that let wearers see light normally invisible to the human eye.
