Europa beckons. This distant, icy orb may be only one of Jupiter’s almost 80 known moons, but it’s what’s inside...
A year in space is no walk in the park. Just ask Scott Kelly, the American astronaut who spent a...
When astronauts return to the moon in the next decade, they will do more with the dust than leave footprints...
What you’re seeing in this remarkable image from the Very Large Telescope (VLT) in Chile is something that’s never been...
There’s never been a radio silence quite like this one. After long months with no way of making contact with...
A team of researchers from the Polytechnic University of Valencia and the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC) has discovered a...
According to team of scientists at the Carnegie Institution for Science, an additional planet located between Saturn and Uranus got...
A distant asteroid trailing in the gravitational wake of Mars has been observed in greater detail than ever before, and...
Among the most extreme planets discovered beyond the edges of our solar system are lava planets: fiery hot worlds that...
Earth orbits the sun like a ship sailing in circles around its anchor. But what if someone – or something –...
Philae has been dead for years. Its last transmission was received in July 2015; now, its unresponsive form rests under...
Centaurs are rare celestial objects that can combine some of the different features of asteroids and comets. They’re basically rocky...
