Retirements and reassignments have led to a reshuffling of leadership in part of NASA’s Science Mission Directorate.

Former Purdue professor Jay Melosh has had his legacy honored in the form of a crater being named after him on the surface of Mars.

Genesis data is now producing high impact science in cosmochemistry, solar physics, coronal mass ejections, and space ...

Boise State physics professor Brian Jackson worked with NASA to get access to Ingenuity flight data. He used it to analyze ...

Astronomy and planetary science are the study of objects and phenomena that occur beyond the Earth’s atmosphere. This includes investigating stars and their interaction with each other and the ...

If you've ever tossed a generous pinch of salt into your pasta pan's water for flavor or as an attempt to make it boil faster, you've likely ended up with a whitish ring of deposits inside the pan.

The striking paradox is that science tells us both that we’re peripheral in the cosmic scheme of things and central to the ...

Nature asked the world’s largest health-research funders what they are doing to study a life stage experienced by half of humanity. Here is what some of them told us.

Six of our cosmic neighbors are expected to line up across the night sky tonight, in what has been dubbed a "planetary parade ...

The discovery of two new planets beyond our solar system by a team of astronomers from The University of Warwick and the ...

A new study suggests that the explosive deaths of the universe's earliest stars created surprising quantities of water that ...

From November 6-8, 2024, the NASA Science Activation Program’s Planetary Resources and Content Heroes (ReaCH) project held a Culturally Inclusive Planetary Engagement workshop at the Bradley ...