Science & Astronomy

Rocket Lab has been awarded a contract to design the twin spacecraft for NASA's potential ESCAPADE Mars mission.

NASA has approved the Near-Earth Object Surveyor space telescope to move into "preliminary design," its next phase of development on the road to a planned liftoff in 2026.

It's always a good sign when astronomers are blunt about the degree to which some observations have puzzled them.

It will take until at least 2080 before women make up just one-third of Australia's professional astronomers.

A recent study claims to have found evidence for mushroom-like life forms on the surface of Mars.

How much energy can be created at one time without losing control?

Tendrils of galaxies up to hundreds of millions of light-years long may be the largest spinning objects in the universe, a new study finds.

Earth's middle layer is chunky, like peanuts in a sea of caramel.

It's been 30 years since NASA last visited Venus, with the Magellan orbiter in 1990.

Physicists used optical tweezers to capture their gas clouds.

New seismic models show that Earth's inner core may be growing faster in the east than in the west, creating a 'lopsided' pattern at the center of our planet.

This week, the community gets chatty in response to some of this week’s coverage and we take on a solar quiz!

The Dark Energy Survey just released its most comprehensive results. But did they really prove Einstein wrong?

China's Mars rover Zhurong used a tiny camera to snap a self portrait of itself with its lander on the Red Planet.

The HiRISE camera aboard NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter snapped a shot of China's first-ever Red Planet rover, called Zhurong, on June 6, about three weeks after the wheeled robot touched down.

Scientists have successfully grown liver tissue capable of functioning for 30 days in the lab as part of NASA's Vascular Tissue Challenge.

Venus scientists have long complained that their target wasn't getting its due in robotic investigators. Now, a third new mission to Earth's mysterious twin has been announced in just over a week.

Scientists have discovered how electrons gain enough energy to cause phenomenal auroral displays.