A recent preprint paper examines the minimum number of people required to maintain a feasible settlement on Mars while accounting for psychological and behavioral factors, specifically in emergency situations. This study was conducted by a team of data scientists from George Mason University and holds the potential to help...
We once thought the Moon was completely airless, but it turns out it has an atmosphere, after all. Even wilder: it has a tail of its own.
The first world that humans should inhabit beyond the Earth is the Moon, not Mars. Here's how to terraform our lunar neighbor.
The Psyche asteroid, a celestial object laden with precious metals and valued at an astounding $10,000 quadrillion.
The 'ultracool' star is possibly around 44 times as dense as our solar system's largest member—the gas giant Jupiter.
Materials found in the rocks of Mars' Jezero Crater suggest that organic matter may be widespread across the red planet.
'This significantly increases the chances of finding environments where life could, in theory, develop.'
This is a journey into the scale of the galaxy we live in, the Milky Way -really well done video
"A space tug that launched on a SpaceX rideshare mission on June 12 started spinning uncontrollably after being deployed."...
NASA's first asteroid samples fetched from deep space parachuted into the Utah desert Sunday to cap a seven-year journey.
OSIRIS-REx's samples of asteroid Bennu will land at 10:42 a.m. EDT (1442 GMT), while the spacecraft itself heads to a new target.
Astronomers have discovered the first "bubble of galaxies," an almost unimaginably huge cosmic structure thought to be a fossilized remnant from just after the Big Bang sitting in our galactic backyard.
You come at the king, you best not miss.
On October 14, 2023, the Americas will experience a partial solar eclipse, but from only eight U.S. states will it be possible to see the 'ring of fire' annular solar eclipse.
A University of Kansas survey of a swath of the cosmos using the James Webb Space Telescope has revealed active galactic nuclei (AGN)—supermassive black holes that are rapidly increasing in size—are rarer than many astronomers had assumed previously.
Microgravity research and technology development on the ISS will continue "full throttle" through the end of 2030, the agency says.
'We now have for the first time vestiges of times that could have been conducive to the origin of life.'
The James Webb Space Telescope detected water vapor swirling around a planetary system 370 light-years away.
A scorching hot world where metal clouds rain drops of titanium is the most reflective planet ever observed outside of our Solar System, astronomers said on Monday.
Zhurong spotted telltale patterns in Martian dunes.
NASA's supersonic plane has moved closer to the runway in preparation for its debut flight.
Radioactive isotopes in meteorites suggest that a supernova erupted in the vicinity of the solar system as it was forming.
Artist's concept illustrating Kepler-16b, the first directly detected circumbinary planet, which is a planet that orbits two stars.
Euclid, a dark matter and dark energy hunter, is set to launch aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Florida's Cape Canaveral Space Force Station on July 1 at 11:11 a.m. EDT (1511 GMT). A live webcast from NASA Television will be carried here at Space.com for free starting at 10:30 a.m. EDT (1430 GMT) in the player above.
