Jupiter, roughly 562 million miles from Earth today, has nearly 100 moons. But Batygin and his collaborator Fred Adams' ...

Tianwen, which means "questions to heaven," is the name given to China's program of robotic Solar System exploration. Tianwen ...

Today, it’s believed that Jupiter and Saturn, the largest planets, were the first to fully form, both within a few million ...

It was race against time as NASA engineers recently raced to fix a thruster problem aboard the vintage Voyager 1 deep space ...

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has made the first-ever and long-anticipated detection of ice outside of our own solar ...

Perseverance has so far found a rock, dubbed Cheyava Falls, which is the strongest evidence of something possibly modified by ...

A new memorandum has firmed up China and Russia's intent to lead the construction of a new lunar base to be completed by 2036, as NASA talks about scaling back its own lunar ambitions.

President Trump on Saturday said that he planned to withdraw his nomination of Jared Isaacman, a billionaire entrepreneur and ...

There’s a new frozen oddball orbiting the Sun, and it’s not your average space rock. It’s a planet—a minor one, to be ...

The asteroid Vesta could be a huge chunk of planet that was blasted off its parent world and sent spinning into space in the aftermath ... During the birth of the solar system, the planets are ...

NASA's JWST has uncovered solid water ice in a distant star system, reshaping our understanding of life's building blocks and ...

NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies has been at the forefront of Earth and planetary science from its location in ...