In a comparison of human and artificial intelligence and its ability to interpret alien landscapes, an AI has detected a triangle on the surface of a dwarf planet, while humans mostly detected a square.

A 'beating heart' of frozen nitrogen on the surface of Pluto controls the dwarf planet's winds and may give rise to features on its surface, according to a new study using NASA data.

The craft, which left the Earth more than 42 years ago on a mission to study and photograph the outer planets, left the solar system in November 2018.

Mohammad-Javad Azari Jahromi, Tehran's information and communications technology minister, last week tweeted a picture of the silver outfit and sparked ridicule.

The Solar Orbiter lifted off from Cape Canaveral Sunday night and will maneuver into a unique out-of-plane orbit that will take it over both of the sun's poles, never photographed before.

NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory's Mars 2020 rover is heading to the Red Planet armed with a high-powered laser that can vaporize rocks from up to 20 feet away to search for life.

She's never been one to play it safe with her fashion choices.  And Sinitta pushed the boat out for the 2020 NME Awards held at London's O2 Arena on Wednesday night.

The binary system of space rocks was discovered by radar images from the Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico and is called 2020 BX12.

She's always the life and soul of every party - and Wednesday night was certainly no exception for Sinitta. The 56-year-old star tumbled into the back of a cab as she left the NME Awards 2020.

NASA has announced it will accept applications for its next class of astronauts, the 23rd in the agency's 61 year history, between March 2nd and March 31st, part of its preparation for the Artemis missions.

SETI scientists are sure aliens have placed a beacon in the center of the galaxy and are building a system that 'piggyback' off VLA telescope in New Mexico to detect the device's signatures.

Each of the asteroids flagged by a computer algorithm at Leiden University are more than 328 feet wide and will pass close between the Earth and the moon between the years 2131 and 2923.

NASA's Juno reveals the first accurate estimate of the total amount of water in Jupiter's atmosphere. Water makes up around 0.25% of the molecules in the planet's atmosphere at its equator.

Marodyne LiV - a vibrating device, resembling a set of bathroom scales - produces gentle vibrations that travel up through the legs, stimulating the growth of new bone cells

NASA will try to use a robotic arm attached to its InSight Lander to push down on a probe meant to drill into Martian soil which has struggled to achieve its mission throughout the past year.

NASA-funded Catalina Sky Survey spotted a temporarily captured asteroid that has been orbiting Earth for three years and has announced it is now our planet's new mini-moon.

According to NASA, the aerospace company didn't perform a full 'end-to-end' integration test of the software designed to automate maneuvers after the craft is launched into space.

The space agency says exploring different geological areas on the surface of Venus will provide insights into the planet's evolution and even our own climate.

Using the High-Resolution Camera aboard NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO), scientists have brought the sand dunes on Mars to life in order to understand what conditions impact them.

Scientists convened on an unfinished underground power plant in Elma, Washington to test a group of autonomous military robots in a simulated disaster scenario searching for survivors.

An asteroid half the size of Mount Everest is heading towards Earth next month, but scientists say it is not expected to collide with us. The object is one to 2.5 miles wide and will pass within 3,908,791 miles.

NASA has opened applications for potential astronauts who want to travel to the Moon in 2024. Candidates need a master's degree in a STEM field like maths or computer science.

NASA shared a high-resolution panorama of 'Glen Torridon' on Mars that is comprised of over 1,000 images and contains 1.8 billion pixels. The images were taken from Nov. 24-Dec.1.

Michael Hetle, a NASA executive who also was a cop, was charged with fatally shooting Javon Prather, a neighbor he argued with over the years over poop that was left outside.

NASA's curiosity rover has identified signs of thiophenes on the surface of the red planet and Washington State University astronomers believe they were formed by biological processes.

NASA says the lettuce was served by astronauts with oil and vinegar dressing and the space leaves were a wild success, described as 'awesome' by the crew who ate them.

A group of university researchers have partnered with NASA to build the technology for a self-sustaining, zero-waste human settlement on Mars, mostly running on recycled materials.

A NASA astronaut Jessica Meir shared images Boston, New York City and Philadelphia as she passed over 254 miles above Earth while aboard the International Space Station.

Professor Scott McLennan's desk at Oxford University may be 140 million miles from Mars but it doesn't stop him using his computer to direct Nasa's spacecraft on the Red Planet.

A team of scientists from Georgia Tech have come up with a new explanation for how ice forms on Mercury despite scorching surface temperatures that can reach 750 degrees Fahrenheit.

With at least 164 countries battle coronavirus, NASA experts say the ISS is the safest place because of the agency's health stabilization program that ensures the crew is not infected before they board.

Researchers from Colombia University found that the level of carbon monoxide, produced from vehicle emissions, had fallen by nearly 50 per cent.

Despite dramatic drops in fumes over cities in Italy, Spain and China it is too early to know if a long-term change has been made in the levels of nitrogen dioxide in quarantined areas.

In his new YouTube video, Mark Rober, 40, sprinkled Glo Germ powder on a third-grade teacher and one of her students to show how germs can spread.

It will be the first manned X-plane produced by NASA in two decades and is designed to help develop standards for future all-electric aircraft.

NASA analyzing data from the Voyager 2's 1986 visit to Uranus and found the magnetic bubble surrounding the planet is allowing bits of its atmosphere to leak into space.

NASA has announced a new research mission that will send small satellites into orbit to study solar particle storms, which can cause geomagnetic storms on Earth and disrupt the electrical grid.

In an unprecedented step, NASA tested a giant 21-foot mirror on its James Webb space telescope that is designed to observe a range of frequencies not currently seen by Hubble.

Nasa's Earth Observatory has opened up an archive of pictures of Earth taken from space and is asking the public to vote for the winner in a knock-out-style competition.

Nellie had been going 'crazy' for bubbles when the 'fluke' photo was taken in Romford, East London. NASA responded saying: 'That's one small boop for the pup, one giant boop for pupkind.'

The NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory team continue to explore red planet despite not being able to go into their California office or use high-end workstations.

ESA released satellite images Venice from this month and the same time last year to highlight a distinct lack of boat traffic following the lockdown in March to limit the spread of coronavirus.

NASA and the ESA have revealed a highly ambitious multi-billion plan to return Martian rock samples to Earth, which would involve three spacecraft, including the former's Mars 2020 rover.

Tiny 'nanocardboard' aircraft that are powered by light and inspired by corrugated paper cardboard could help NASA collect samples on Mars and discover more of the red planet.

Space X's final parachute test passed with flying colors ahead of its launch in May It will be the US's first manned in nearly nine years.

Actor Tom Cruise and Elon Musk's SpaceX are working on a project with NASA to shoot an action film in outer space. The movie would be the first narrative feature film to be shot in outer space.

Reddit's moderators who oversee the site's many subreddits say the 'Start Chatting' feature made the process of monitoring content and behavior more opaque and prone to abuse.

The controversial facial recognition company Clearview AI is in negotiations with several unnamed federal agencies and three US states to provide contact tracing services during.

Researchers studying a web browser loaded into the company's phones found that it was tracking nearly all of a users' web behavior including visited websites and search queries in Google.

The hugely influential British artist partnered with snap to allow people to create their own virtual versions of his world-renowned Spin paintings.