"Ultimately, this work may help scientists better predict the impact of space weather across the solar system on longer ...

Then, on November 25, teams at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, joined the inner and outer portions ...

The interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS will make its closest approach to Earth on December 19, and will be visible with binoculars ...

In this animated discussion, Venus, Mars, and Mercury explore the unique characteristics of Earth, focusing on why it is the ...

Even the best telescopes can’t see exoplanets. It’s all about watching for jiggly stars, blue shifts, and transits.

From the meteor showers to super moons, this time of year gives us a front row seat to one of the most active regions of the ...

The comet is the third object ever confirmed to have entered our cosmic neighborhood from elsewhere in the galaxy. Space ...

A pilot signals to a crew member before takeoff from NASA's Armstrong Flight Research Center in Edwards, California, on Aug.

Saturn’s rings are not the permanent fixture they appear to be through a backyard telescope. Planetary scientists now agree that the planet is actively losing ring material, and over astronomical ...

"Life could go on as usual." Small icy moons in the outer reaches of our solar system may hide boiling oceans underneath their surfaces, a new study finds. Previous research found that some of the icy ...

The outer planets of the solar system are swarmed by ice-wrapped moons. Some of these, such as Saturn's moon Enceladus, are known to have oceans of liquid water between the ice shell and the rocky ...

Roughly four and a half billion years ago the planet Theia slammed into Earth, destroying Theia, melting large fractions of Earth’s mantle and ejecting a huge debris disk that later formed the moon.