It will take years to reach the asteroid called Psyche. Inside a giant, white clean room on the campus of NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, engineers and scientists have been ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — Scientists revealed Wednesday that Mars’ innermost core appears to be a solid hunk of metal just like Earth’s. The Chinese-led research team based their findings on seismic ...

Mars science discoveries can be so superficial — the search for water caches, terrestrial sampling, and other technical marvels tend to take place on the surface of the Red Planet (or a little above ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — NASA’s Psyche spacecraft rocketed away Friday on a six-year journey to a rare metal-covered asteroid. Most asteroids tend to be rocky or icy, and this is the first ...

There is no question about it that the talk of the week among space enthusiasts was the launch of the DART mission on Wednesday. DART marks humanity’s first attempt at coming up with some sort of ...

Researchers have discovered a new, innermost layer nestled inside our planet’s inner core, a 400-miles solid metallic ball that responds to the reverberating shockwaves of earthquakes in an unexpected ...

Mars has a heavy heart after all. The Red Planet has a dense core of liquid iron surrounded by a relatively thin layer of molten rock, researchers report. The finding resolves a recent conundrum that ...