Since Viking 1 landed in 1976, humans have studied Mars from afar, relying on rovers and orbiters to analyze the planet. But ...

Curiosity and MAVEN share the same alien sky, one on the ground and one in orbit, yet the rover will never simply “look up” ...

Interstellar object 3I/ATLAS is confirmed as a natural comet from beyond our solar system, posing no threat to Earth despite ...

Leading X-ray space telescopes XMM-Newton and XRISM have spotted a never-seen-before blast from a supermassive black hole. In ...

The best reason to send humans to Mars isn’t for guts or glory—or the construction of colonies to safeguard against existential Earth-bound risks. Instead it’s to answer a single, simple question: Is ...

A Carnegie-led team of astronomers detected the strongest evidence yet of an atmosphere around a rocky planet beyond our ...

From memorable installments of "Pluribus" and "Andor" to "Severance" and "Paradise," here are the 11 best TV episodes of 2025.

American space agency NASA said the Perseverance rover is good to go on Mars until at least 2031, both hardware and software ...

The past year won't be remembered as one that marked a record of important space missions, but one when the foundations for ...

Readers Edition. This is the (nearly) annual tradition of you, RPS readers, telling us where we went wrong in our annual ...

Space is always inspiring and 2025 was no exception, with finding Betelgeuse’s buddy, debuting a prolific survey telescope ...