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NASA’s Perseverance rover has identified an exotic rock on Mars that may be an iron-nickel meteorite, according to…

Lesser yellowlegs. Credit: Russ, Wikimedia Commons, CC license attribution It’s the third of a generous five Saturdays in…

As stars age, they expand. That’s bad news for planets orbiting close to their stars, according to a…

The moon’s visibility is decreasing each night, and tonight there’s less than 20% of it lit up. That…

This article was originally published at The Conversation. The publication contributed the article to Space.com’s Expert Voices: Op-Ed…

An illustration showing how Baryon Acoustic Oscillations (BAOs) expand with the universe. Credit: Gabriela Secara, Perimeter Institute CC-BY-4.0…

Rest assured that as everything seems to be falling apart on Earth, it also appears that the rest…

Lunar rocks brought back by China’s Chang’e-6 mission contain the first clear physical evidence of hematite and maghemite…

The stars of the show in this week’s science news were actually the stars themselves. It was a…

During her mission to the International Space Station (ISS) in 2026, French astronaut Sophie Adenot will be tasked…

Australian astronaut Katherine Bennell-Pegg traces her impulse for adventure back to the nights when, as a child, she…

Astronomers have spotted auroras on a planet-sized object called SIMP 0136, which is currently roaming around our Milky…

NASA rover spots something on Mars that doesn’t belong there