Simply Put: Pollution’s solution

New study finds Mars’ core less dense that Earth’s. How it impacts the Red Planet

Unlike Earth's core, Mars' innermost layer cannot generate magnetic field

Dawn captures gleaming, bright spots on Ceres

The NASA spacecraft will map the entire Ceres six times over the next two months

Super-pollutant

Face off ?

The core of a star

The planet up close

US scientists use radar to capture every single detail of the Earth's topography

Rock bottom

NASA-funded study brings together researchers from across the world to unravel mysteries of tropical forests

Long-term study to explore biodiversity, gas exchanges and bio-geoscience cycles on a pan-tropical scale, train future researchers

Australia's smoke, around the world

Images from Nasa satellites show that smoke from the continent's bushfires has spread into the stratosphere and around the world, Nasa has revealed

New space telescope to create a 3D X-ray map of Universe

The Spectrum-Roentgen-Gamma telescope aims to detect up to 3 mn supermassive black holes — many of which will be new to science — and …

Married in space

The recent Atlantis-Mir docking in space, only the 2nd of its kind, is the first tentative step towards Mars

The light show

A satellite tracks outbound electrons from the Earth's poles to understand the northern lights

Earth-sized exoplanet with potential for life discovered 40 light-years away

More analysis needed to see if exoplanet Gliese 12 b has an atmosphere & maintains temperatures that allows liquid water

ESA’s JUICE mission will soon start unlocking the secrets of Jupiter’s icy moons

Artemis: Why it may be the last mission for NASA astronauts

Within the next few decades, robotic exploration of Mars could be almost entirely autonomous

Hottest May on Earth was a cooler one for India

Almost all the countries of the world witnessed a hotter than normal May month this year but India stood out as an exception

NASA maps trace causes of global mangrove habitat loss

While overall mangrove habitat loss declined between 2000 and 2016, losses from natural causes such as erosion and extreme weather …

Redefining how we look at the early universe | James Webb Space Telescope (JWST)

Two years ago, NASA launched the most advanced telescope that has been created so far

Saturn, as seen by Cassini

Mars rover finds water

Images sent by NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter show dark streaks up to four metres wide running down the sides of some slopes on the …

We've found a new family of stars in the Milky Way that could help us work out how galaxies formed

A new discovery can help determine where all the stars in the universe's galaxies actually come from

Juno's closest flyby past Jupiter on Saturday

There are 35 more close flybys of Jupiter scheduled during its prime mission which will end in February 2018

US embraces nuclear reactors to power spacecrafts

Thirty years after they were abandoned for good, nuclear reactors are making a fatal comeback in the US spacecrafts. In 2003, the US National …

Five Earth-like planets discovered by NASA