Tianwen, which means "questions to heaven," is the name given to China's program of robotic Solar System exploration. Tianwen ...

Raman spectroscopy uses scattered light to identify a substance's chemical ingredients and is one of the most widely used ...

Elon Musk has big plans following the fallout with President Donald Trump. The billionaire hosted a live event Thursday, ...

People always want to know what will happen to Earth when the sun eventually swells up as a red giant. For one thing, the ...

China's Tianwen 2 spacecraft launched on Tuesday (May 28), kicking off a bold mission to grab a sample of one of Earth's ...

A new study proposes that seeding the orb’s underground ocean with microbes might help us learn how to make other worlds ...

Our exploration of the cosmos has great potential for understanding life on Earth, but it is clear that we need to think ...

A new memorandum has firmed up China and Russia's intent to lead the construction of a new lunar base to be completed by 2036 ...

Our satellite is a little off-balance. GRAIL data show a mass asymmetry of a few percent between its near and far sides.

Data from NASA’s Dawn mission and simulations from Purdue University claim that up to 90% of Ceres’ outer shell may be made ...

American space agency NASA announced the Dragonfly quadcopter that will be sent to Titan will target the Selk crater on ...

SpaceX is about to launch the Starship — the world’s most powerful rocket — for the ninth time, and you can watch the event ...