NASA's Europa Clipper will initiate a gravity assist on its journey to Jupiter. The probe will slingshot around Mars to gain speed. NASA footage ...

Explore Ceres, the largest asteroid in our solar system, and discover its remarkable ancient ocean and ice-rich crust.

The Tarantula Nebula, also known as 30 Doradus, is revealed in an unusual light in this exceptionally deep Chandra X-ray ...

Scientific groups like SETI have sketched out plans for first contact protocols, but both scientists and governments need to ...

The space station and one other Easter egg — the site of NASA's next human moon landing — are hidden in this lucky photo.

Donald Trump issued his first direct order to Elon Musk as president: go fetch the astronauts who flew to the International ...

Alas, the miracle could not last. The solar storms were heating Earth's upper atmosphere, causing it to inflate and increase ...

What can a moon’s tidal friction teach us about its formation and evolution? This is what a recent study published in Science ...

During the latest round of layoffs, the tiny team was among the hundreds let go. And though some parts of the educational ...

HH 30 is a luminous region surrounding a newborn star, or protostar. The James Webb Space Telescope helped reveals unprecedented details of it.

To get somewhere in outer space, you can’t exactly drive in a straight line. Orbits are tricky things, and sending a probe to ...

An artist's concept of NASA's Europa Clipper spacecraft. NASA/JPL-Caltech The Margaret Jones Wyllie '45 Engineering Program evans-aeros ...