A new international study published in Earth and Planetary Science Letters reveals that the boundaries between geological ...

REx, NASA's first asteroid sample return mission, reveals why some gray asteroids reflect light at different wavelengths, ...

Asteroids have long been described as the leftover pieces from the solar system’s early construction. They are like the ...

While initial studies and reports indicated that glaciers on Mars were composed mainly of rock and dust, recent planetary ...

The task helps them survey the vast landscapes of the universe — from the Earth to the moon — in a space known as the Heat ...

Scientists studying asteroids found that two seemingly unrelated types share a strange dusty coating of troilite. By using ...

After analyzing images taken by a CubeSat that flew past the DART mission's collision with asteroid Dimorphos in 2022, NASA ...

Tucson planetary scientist Faith Vilas is this year’s recipient of the prestigious Gerard P. Kuiper Prize from the American ...

"One of the things that we're able to do now that wasn't possible in the '70s, when the museum first opened, is to create ...

Oregon State University researchers tested a quadruped robot at White Sands National Park, showing it can scout terrain and ...

As a planetary geologist who works with NASA missions to study Mars, I follow exploration science and policy closely. In 2010, the U.S. National Space Policy set goals for human missions to Mars ...

The discussion underscored how citizen scientists, by contributing thousands of data points from around the world, are ...