A team of engineers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory has outlined the decade-long development and testing of what was ...

In chaos terrains like Tara Regio, the presence of strange chemicals—including table salt and carbon dioxide—suggests that ...

Jupiter’s ice-covered ocean moon Europa floats above the planet’s Great Red Spot in this 1979 image from Voyager 1. This is a ...

James Webb Space Telescope data indicating that Jupiter’s moon Europa is undergoing constant surface changes has found new ...

The search for life beyond Earth is a key driver of modern astronomy and planetary science. The U.S. is building multiple major telescopes and planet ...

Exoplanet science is shifting from finding any detectable exoplanets we can to searching for those in their stars' habitable ...