Students, professors, alumni and stargazers alike gathered to celebrate the life and legacy of Carl Sagan in a 90th birthday celebration hosted by the Carl Sagan Institute.

Venus was once covered in water. Or was it? An analysis of our twin planet’s atmosphere suggests it could never have ...

What's harder than flying a single satellite in Earth orbit? Flying two—right beside each other, at proximities that would normally trigger collision avoidance maneuvers.

Our sister planet is thought to have once been a habitable world, but a new study could change that narrative and alter the ...

The asteroids, named 447755 (2007 JX2) and (2020 XR), are each estimated to be roughly between 900 feet and 2,100 feet across ...

Something is blooming above the Parnassus Heights campus – where scientists are accelerating research to treat the world’s ...

Earth is an ocean world, with water covering about 71% of its surface. Venus, our closest planetary neighbor, is sometimes ...

Stephan Mertens passed away on October 9, 2024, at the age of 62 after a seven-year battle with multiple myeloma. At the time ...

Researchers have identified an 1,800-mile-wide plain in the northern hemisphere of Mars that may currently host alien life.

Plate tectonics seems to be crucial for life on Earth, but we’ve never confirmed that it happens on other worlds - that may ...

The Sombrero galaxy looks entirely different in a new image by the James Webb Space Telescope. Instead of a Mexican hat, it ...

The astronauts arrived at the Tiangong space station on Oct. 29, beginning their six-month-long stay in orbit. They have ...