Today, it’s believed that Jupiter and Saturn, the largest planets, were the first to fully form, both within a few million ...

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The White House's 2026 budget request axes NASA's long-held plan to bring Mars samples to Earth for analysis. Here's why that cancellation would be a mistake.

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A state with some of the longest permitting timelines in the country shredded a bill that was intended to speed up and reduce ...

A solar system is a solution to the frequent power cuts and inadequate grid coverage in Nigeria, but only for those who can ...

The mystery of how planets and icy objects formed in the farthest reaches of our solar system just took an exciting turn. A ...

Perseverance has so far found a rock, dubbed Cheyava Falls, which is the strongest evidence of something possibly modified by life. It is the weakest possibility of life signal on NASA’s CoLD scale, ...

California’s outdated rooftop solar system is shifting billions of dollars’ worth of subsidies onto non-rooftop solar ...

Learn about the solar system from a pair of real space museum curators in sci-fi game Elite Dangerous, as Abbie MacKinnon and Laura Joy Pieters of the London Science Museum give a guided tour of our ...