NASA and the Department of Energy aim to deploy a lunar surface nuclear reactor by 2030 to support sustained Moon missions and future exploration under the Artemis program.

Ahead of an unprecedented early exit from the International Space Station due to an undisclosed medical concern, Crew-11 ...

A new study suggests lunar soil contains elements that solar wind transported to the moon from Earth’s atmosphere, solving a ...

Scientists used satellite data to confirm that Earth's crust is "dripping" into the mantle beneath Turkey's Central Anatolian ...

“Soil Science: The Dirt on Dirt,” a new class and lab — ERT 404LLB and ERT 504, respectively — in the Department of Earth Sciences brings together students from varying disciplines to unearth soil’s ...

For decades, the idea of people living on Mars has felt like a distant fantasy, limited by the brutal cost of hauling ...

Scientists have pulled back the curtain on one of the most extreme solar regions seen in decades, tracking it almost nonstop ...

Crystals hidden in Australia’s oldest rocks have revealed new clues about how Earth and the Moon formed. The study suggests ...

NASA’s Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe (IMAP) reached the Sun-Earth Lagrange point 1 (L1) on January 10, 2026, approximately 1 million miles from Earth toward the Sun, according to NASA.

New research suggests that amino acids, the fundamental components of life, may have arrived on Earth carried by interstellar ...

While Alan Shepard played one of the worst rounds of Moon golf on record, an experiment was circling the Moon 34 times on ...

For the first time in more than half a century, astronauts are again training to fly around the moon, not as a distant dream ...