On Dec. 27, 2024, NASA's Juno spacecraft swooped by the volcanic world Io. It witnessed a giant eruption.

Samples returned from an asteroid contain a surprising abundance of the basic ingredients of life. They were discovered to be ...

Molecules friendly to life have been found in samples of the asteroid Bennu, which NASA collected with a robotic probe five ...

Scientists studying samples that NASA collected from the asteroid Bennu found a wide assortment of organic molecules that ...

In 2018, after six decades of dreaming, a revolutionary spacecraft launched on a mission unlike any before: to dive into the ...

Thales Alenia Space (TAS), a joint-venture between Thales (67%) and Leonardo (33%), has signed a contract with the European ...

A super-Earth planet that dips in and out of its star's habitable zone has been discovered just 19.7 light-years away.

Astronomers have found two planets around two separate stars that are succumbing to their stars' intense heat.

NISAR, an upcoming Earth satellite mission by NASA and ISRO, promises to revolutionize how we monitor Earth's surface. Using ...

Planets continue their nighttime shows, with eight visible at points during February, including Venus on Feb. 14.

NASA’s Lucy mission will continue its journey to explore the Jupiter Trojan asteroids, which share Jupiter’s orbit around the ...

Venus, the brightest point of light in the sky, is two and a half fists held upright and at arm’s length above the ...