May’s night sky is packed with astronomical events—find out when and where to look for meteor showers, ancient star clusters, ...

An international team used 40 years' worth of data from two space probes to track down what they believe are signs of this ...

Planetary scientists research the complex asteroid Vesta which may possess the same fundamental architecture as Earth such as ...

The "creep test" was carried out on an inflatable habitat that would be carried to other planets to house humans.

Vesta, one of the two largest bodies in our solar system's asteroid belt, has long been thought to be more than just another ...

The cloud, named Eos, is chock-full of molecular hydrogen and possibly rife with star-forming potential in the future.

When people believe that we have found life on other planets when we have not, we've lost more than public trust — we've lost ...

Potential Trump administration funding cuts at NASA would take a blowtorch to space science and American leadership in space.

The Dragonfly quadcopter will soar through Titan’s hazy skies and roam its dune seas in search of evidence that the distant ...

Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk, wearing a shirt that says “Occupy Mars,” and Republican vice presidential nominee Sen. JD ...

Curiosity rover is hunting for microbial life on Mars. NASA reconnaissance orbiter snapped its first-ever image of Curiosity ...

A team of astronomers poring through old astronomical data may have seen a candidate for the elusive Planet Nine – a ...