Learn how nitrogen and helium end up in lunar soil, and why this helps us understand planetary habitability.

An artistic rendering of a dust and gas disk encircling the young exoplanet, CT Cha b, 625 light-years from Earth. Spectroscopic data from NASA’s JWST suggest the disk contains the raw materials for ...

When NASA scientists opened the sample return canister from the OSIRIS-REx asteroid sample mission in late 2023, they found ...

Mars looks quiet today, but new research suggests the planet’s surface still carries the rhythm of a vanished companion.

This means that the lunar regolith could still hold a very long-term record of Earth's atmospheric history, which in turn ...

JWST has captured exoplanet Tylos shedding its atmosphere into two giant tails, revealing how extreme stellar radiation can ...

The Moon has long been cast as a dead world, a place of dust, vacuum and brutal temperature swings that no living thing could ...

A large mass of granite that has been slowly releasing heat has been discovered buried beneath a crater on the Moon. This is ...

Future observations by NASA’s Europa Clipper mission could offer new insights into Europa’s subsurface oceans and potential ...

Scientists find that time on Mars runs 477 microseconds faster than on Earth, a discovery that could enhance deep-space communication and future exploration ...

Apollo lunar samples show how space weathering alters the Moon’s surface over time, affecting ultraviolet light reflection and interpretation of Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter data.

Nasa’s mission teams use extreme environments to trial equipment and procedures for future lunar and planetary exploration.