A NASA spacecraft has set sail for Jupiter and its moon Europa, one of the best bets for finding life beyond Earth.

NASA has achieved significant progress in robotic space exploration over the last two decades, and now its largest planetary ...

A SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket carrying NASA’s Europa Clipper spacecraft lifts off from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Monday, Oct. 14, 2024. [...] ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has detected clouds made of silicates, similar to sand here on Earth, as well as water, methane and carbon monoxide on exoplanet VHS 1256 b. The exoplanet is more ...

In the search for life beyond Earth, scientists have traveled to distant locations — Antarctica and its ice sheets, Chile and ...

On Tuesday, Oct. 15, SpaceX launched its 100th rocket this year, then sent its 101st aloft two hours later, both in their ...

NASA has announced that asteroid 2024 TY21, measuring approximately 40 feet wide, will pass Earth safely today at a distance ...

The sight of a fireball streaking across the sky brings wonder and excitement to children and adults alike. It's a reminder ...

Brian Cox, the 56-year-old physicist who first found fame as the keyboard player in the chart-topping band D:ream, has gone ...

A dwarf planet hiding right in the middle of our solar system could be a surprising source of frozen water, astronomers ...

SpaceX successfully launched a Falcon 9 rocket carrying a payload of 20 Starlink satellites from Space Launch Complex 40 at ...

This week, marvel at giant tube worms living beneath hot springs on the ocean floor, watch SpaceX catch a rocket booster, ...