Scientists studying Saturn's icy moon, Enceladus, have discovered that its ocean forms layers that slow the upward movement ...

NASA’s PUNCH mission will explore the connection between the sun’s corona and the solar wind using 3D imaging.

Measurements and data collected from space can be used to better understand life on Earth. An ambitious, multinational research project has demonstrated that Earth's biodiversity can be monitored and ...

"You know what? The Moon's big enough that we can nuke it and land on it at the same time, so let's give this a shot." In 1958, the U.S. government plotted to show up the Soviets in the Space Race — ...

The risk of impact is likely to drop to zero as observations of Asteroid 2024 YR4 continue.

Firefly Aerospace's Blue Ghost lander is on its way to the moon, but it has already captured a rare celestial event: a small ...

This is the last chance to catch the pair in conjunction this year—with Venus set to be unusually bright in the night sky.

Studies of asteroid Bennu delivered to Earth by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft have revealed molecules that, on our planet, are key to life.

As the first month of the new year winds down, it’s a good time to take existing goals to the next level — or to chart a new ...

An asteroid that orbited near Earth for a few months as a mini-moon may be a chunk of the moon that was blasted off by an impact thousands of years ago.

Anyone could make a mistake in thinking that the “fiction” bit of science fiction absolves the genre of any responsibility to ...

People often look at the stars from Earth, but astronauts get to look at Earth from the stars. The crew on the International Space Station use their cameras to show off the world from 260 miles above.