Space technology will help monitor the effects of climate change, warn of impending natural disasters, and improve ...

NASA's Europa Clipper embarks on a 1.8 billion-mile journey to study Jupiter’s moon Europa for potential habitability.

Headed to Jupiter’s moon Europa, NASA’s Europa Clipper spacecraft is operating without a hitch and will reach Mars in just ...

Every 13-15 years, Saturn is angled in a way in which the edge of its thin rings are oriented toward Earth – effectively ...

K2-33b, depicted in this illustration, is among the youngest exoplanets discovered to date by NASA's Kepler Space Telescope. This artist's rendering depicts a giant exoplanet causing small bodies to ...

Asteroid 2022 WJ1 made first and final contact with our planet on November 19, 2022. It is now estimated to be an S-chondrite ...

To create LignoSat, researchers used honoki, a type of magnolia tree native to Japan and normally used to make sword covers.

The spacecraft—humanity's most distant probe—managed to resumed contact by switching to a secondary radio not used since 1981 ...

It’s time to introduce our hero, (Joseph) Norman Lockyer (1836-1920). Lockyer was a respected though minor civil servant, working as a secretary for the War Office in Whitehall. He had a comfortable ...

A team of researchers led by Matthew Genge at Imperial College London confirmed that the asteroid has organic molecules; it confirmed that the samples actually have signs of life — but this life doesn ...

Most of humanity’s knowledge about Uranus came from a 1986 Voyager 2 flyby on “a particularly windy day.” A new study says ...

Balloon launches from around the world are part of a new kind of global alarm system: One that can detect if another country ...