Latest articles by Rahul Rao
Scientists are diving into the mystery of the missing storm in Earth's magnetotail, which refers to our planet's magnetic field tail.
After much debate, the Curiosity Mars rover team decided to continue following an intriguing channel rather than send the robot on an off-road detour.
New images from the VLT Survey Telescope will help scientists learn about galaxy pasts, and perhaps futures.
The rings that circle gas giants like Saturn are composed mostly of water-ice particles. Could life exist in these beautiful and enigmatic structures?
NASA's Lucy spacecraft serendipitously found a small moonlet orbiting the mission's asteroid target Dinkinesh. Scientists named it Selam, and have now learned that Selam is a cosmic toddler.
Scientists suggest lunar astronauts can stay fit by running sideways within a Wheel of Death.
How Pluto's Sputnik Planitia formed remains unknown, but researchers have imagined a body about the size of Switzerland crashing into Pluto at a shallow angle.
NASA's Curiosity rover is now exploring a possible ancient river on Mars named Gediz Vallis.
NASA's Parker Solar Probe looked into a coronal mass ejection coming from the sun for the first time, detecting some turbulence that has intrigued scientists.
Scientists have invented a program that allows spacecraft to dock autonomously. It's still in testing phases, but the next step may be to try it out in orbit.
NASA wants Artemis moon astronauts to have the perfect moon camera — Nikon is on the case.
Newly released photos by Europe's Mars Express orbiter shows the Red Planet's exotic north polar region, where sand dunes meet high, icy cliffs.
Scientists studied the Radcliffe Wave, a giant star-studded structure not far from our sun, to see that it is indeed "waving."
Scientists with the JET facility have broken a record for the most amount of raw energy created via nuclear fusion. There's still work to be done, though.
During its second close rendezvous with Jupiter's volcanic moon, NASA's Juno spacecraft collected some amazing images of the scene.
As Artemis 3 nears its 2026 launch date, geologists worry about whether moonquakes and lunar landslides will impact landing.
Scientists have found fingerprints of water in ancient meteorites reminiscent of the planetesimals that formed Earth.
The OSIRIS-REx sampling mission, a planetary defense prototype named DART and a spacecraft's ambitious journey to a metal world are just some of the highlights
Two upcoming solar missions will be armed with "photon sieves." Here's what that means.
After a NASA mission redirected an asteroid moonlet with a planned crash in 2022, a new model is building on that effort to show how a nuclear weapon could smash a space rock to pieces.
After more than a decade of hunting for asteroids and comets, the days of NASA's NEOWISE mission are officially numbered, thanks to our increasingly active sun.
Mirroring the Earth's Anthropocene, which describes the age in which humans altered our planet, scientists argue moon advancements place us in a Lunar Anthropocene.
Scientists believe possible amino acids in Enceladus' subsurface ocean can indeed be detected by spacecraft.
