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Scientists Thought Mars’s North Polar Ice Was 25% Dust. They Were Way Off

Earth Tipped on Its Side During the Age of Dinosaurs—and Not Just Once

Astronomers have produced the clearest exoplanet 'ultrasound' to date and its twins!

Suns set on hunt for giant planets in nearby binary system

Astronomers discover a cold lava planet that may resemble early Earth

Earth microbes survive simulated conditions of Saturn moon’s ocean

An Invisible Force Has a Mysterious Effect on Aging, Scientists Discover in 'Startling' Breakthrough

The sun may once have swallowed a super-Earth planet and could still be hiding the evidence

NASA found possible sign of life on Mars, but sample remains stuck there

NASA Found Strange Holes on Mars. Scientists Aren't Sure What Made Them.

A NASA-Funded Project Could Send Swarms of Aerobots to Explore the Underground Caves of Titan

JWST found water-altered clay minerals on two of Neptune's tiny inner moons and its rings that probably formed deep inside much larger icy worlds — compelling evidence that today's moons may be rubble from Neptune's original satellite system, destroyed w

Perseverance Finds Organic Carbon Preserved Just Beneath the Martian Surface

'Significant areas of Mars may have once been covered by water': Scientists find hidden clue in Spirit rover data

NASA’s Juno spacecraft finds temperatures surging just below Io’s volcanic surface

Mars has such thin air that around noon near the equator, sunlit ground beneath your boots could reach 24 degrees Celsius while the air around your head remained below freezing — allowing one standing person to span temperatures resembling spring and

Astronomers find nearby planets to be small, strange, and utterly uninhabitable

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In November 2025, UC Irvine astronomers announced a rocky super-Earth called GJ 251 c orbiting in a habitable zone less than 20 light-years away — close enough that the next generation of ground-based telescopes may actually photograph it directly

Astronomers report that GJ 251 c, a rocky super-Earth located within 25 light-years, has become a primary subject in the search for potential extraterrestrial life.

First-Ever Footage of Haunting Barreleye Fish Captured Deep Beneath The Atlantic

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NASA will have to find a way to service its new alien-hunting space telescope

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In 1610, Galileo spotted a small, smooth moon circling Jupiter and wrote it down; four hundred years later, scientists confirmed it likely holds the largest ocean in the solar system, buried under ice and never once touched by sunlight

Rocket Report: Indian startup nears first launch; SpaceX’s millenary milestone

Key milestones emerge in Mars exploration and commercial spaceflight as NASA delivers critical engines and SpaceX hits a launch record.

Comet from another star has a composition unlike anything else in our solar system

Study suggests life on Earth has around 1.8 billion years left

Mars may have once been filled with seas of magma that made the Red Planet habitable

'Titan is actually a very reasonable destination for humans': Scientists start mapping out crewed mission to huge Saturn moon

Giant exoplanet may hold a magnetic grip on its host star

Researchers have found the strongest evidence to date of a magnetic field on a giant exoplanet that may be magnetically connected to its host star.

Mars orbiter watches Perseverance rover cross the marathon finish line photo of the day for June 29, 2026

China Is About To Land On Earth’s ‘Mini-Moon’

China's Tianwen-2 probe has arrived at a quasi-moon of Earth, marking a significant milestone in its mission to an asteroid.

Science news this week: Life on Mars, weird water and a curious human cousin