At the time the images were taken, Europa Clipper was about 2 billion miles (3.2 billion kilometers) from Uranus. The ...

Small icy moons in the outer reaches of our solar system may hide boiling oceans underneath their surfaces, a new study finds.

Cutting-edge simulations show that Enceladus’ plumes are losing 20–40% less mass than earlier estimates suggested. The new ...

Discover the incredible story of NASA's New Horizons mission, from its 2006 launch aboard an Atlas V rocket to its historic ...

N ASA’s Europa Clipper spacecraft is on its cruise to explore Jupiter’s mysterious ice moon, Europa. On this path, it clicked ...

It's been one Neptunian year—or about 165 Earth years—since astronomers first observed the most distant planet from the sun.

Our solar system has eight planets, four of which move in slightly different elliptical orbits which are tilted compared to ...

On Nov. 18, 1999, 12 people died in the collapse of the Aggie Bonfire at Texas A&M University. It was a tradition at the ...

The housing: The buildings surveyed in the report contained more than 3,000 single-room occupancy units in total. These are ...

When Galileo pointed his telescope at Saturn and Jupiter, he had just discovered the nature of two giant planets. Later came Uranus and Neptune, two more gas giants. Since then, astronomers have ...

What happens when a planet contains immense quantities of water but is far too hot for that water to remain liquid?

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 ...