NASA has worked on its own first contact protocols, conducting a 2024 workshop event about how best to communicate the ...

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Scientists are cataloging and analyzing the first samples collected by NASA's Perseverance rover while the agency weighs its ...

Scientists say the threat of a newly discovered asteroid has risen slightly in the past few weeks, as the world's telescopes ...

An asteroid has a 2.3% chance of hitting Earth in 2032. This is, maybe, why we all can’t stop obsessing about it. (Essay) ...

In 2011, a project that surveyed the Milky Way galaxy for exoplanets — which are planets beyond our solar system — spotted an ...

Where is all the water that may form oceans on distant planets and moons? The SPHEREx astrophysics mission will search the ...

Gaining insight could help understand the timing and process of life's emergence. A research team led by a Rutgers-New ...

In partnership with NASA, the Intuitive Machines lander Athena will send a water-seeking drill, a pogo-sticking crater probe ...

The above image shows a 20-meter-long chunk of frozen carbon dioxide falling off a cliff. Rising temperatures during the ...

Scientists of course cannot cut into Earth and directly observe its insides. Instead, their knowledge is inferred from the ...