Nearly 47 years ago, two NASA spacecrafts were bound for one of the grandest journeys across our solar system to fly by and learn about our outer gas giants.The ...

When we think of exoplanets that may be able to support life, we home in on the habitable zone. A habitable zone is a region ...

Tiny grains from a distant asteroid are revealing clues to the magnetic forces that shaped the far reaches of the solar ...

The probe will orbit the sun "close enough to pass inside a solar eruption, like a surfer diving under a crashing ocean wave, ...

A close flyby of an asteroid as large as Apophis happens only once every 5,000 to 10,000 years. Scientists plan to learn all they can.

Astronomers have used NASA’s Hubble and James Webb space telescopes to capture unprecedented details of the extensive debris ...

A distant white dwarf hosts an Earth-like planet in an orbit that might be similar to Earth’s if it survives the Sun’s red giant phase.

"This gas cloud located 500 light years away from our solar system is about to become a planet.This process usually takes a ...

This month, catch planetary views of Saturn, Jupiter, and Mars, witness a close pass of the Parker Solar Probe by Venus, and ...

Night sky observers always factor in the moon to determine the best time for astronomy viewing, especially for the two meteor ...

Saturn shines in the south most of the night, Jupiter rises in the early evening, while Mars is visible in the early morning sky.

On Oct. 14 NASA’s Europa Clipper was launched from Kennedy Space Center to explore Jupiter’s moon, Europa. It will arrive at Jupiter in April 2030. Europa is believed to have a subsurface ocean with ...