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 asteroid Ryugu are revealing clues to the magnetic forces that shaped the far reaches of the solar system over 4.6 billion years ago. The findings suggest the distal solar system ...

Elon Musk aims to make life multiplanetary, but Jeff Bezos believes we should be building massive cylindrical space stations.

Written by the former chief historian of NASA, the book examines the evolution of our cosmic understanding—from early civilizations to the present day ...

Research indicates that the James Webb Space Telescope could help confirm the presence of life-supporting atmospheres on exoplanets in the "Goldilocks zone," enhancing the likelihood of discovering ...

Onboard Juno is its famed camera, dubbed "JunoCam." A two megapixel visible light camera, JunoCam is designed "to study the ...

The nearby bright star Vega is surrounded by a surprisingly smooth, 100 billion-mile-wide disk of cosmic dust, confirming ...

"CODEX's observations will contribute to our understanding of the region that space weather travels through, helping improve ...

Today, NASA's Parker Solar Probe will complete its seventh swing past Venus — the spacecraft's final maneuver around the ...

While that sounds like a huge distance, it is actually very close on a solar system scale: The closest planet to the ...