New research sheds light on icy ocean worlds like Jupiter's Europa, focusing on a novel thermodynamic concept called the ...

On Mercury, craters are named after “artists, musicians, painters and authors who have made outstanding or fundamental ...

"The data that will come down from the spacecraft will be fresh information about a place that we, as humanity, have never ...

NASA’s Parker Solar Probe skimmed the sun on Christmas Eve and lived to tell the tale. The heat-hardened spacecraft made its closest solar flyby yet at 6:53 a.m. EST on December 24. It came within 6.1 ...

NASA's record-setting spacecraft was just 3.8 million miles from the sun's surface—the closest any human-made object has ever ...

Uranus is undoubtedly the most oddly named planet in our Solar System, but things could have been worse. After all, being the ...

Unfortunate timing The first panel of this artist's concept depicts how Uranus's magnetosphere – its protective bubble – was ...

NASA is developing a next-gen Mars helicopter, larger and more capable than Ingenuity, to enhance exploration of the Red ...

Formerly the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope, the observatory was renamed in 2020 to honor Vera Rubin, who died at 88 in 2016 ...

January's sky brings a planet parade, Mars opposition, and the Quadrantid meteor shower. Enjoy Venus and Saturn's close ...

In 2025, the sky will be illuminated by 12 full Moons, plenty of meteor showers, four eclipses and three Supermoons. Here's a ...

Some stargazers are calling it a planetary parade: Every other planet in our solar system can be seen in the sky tonight.