A rare and dramatic scene unfolds 140 light-years from Earth. A rocky planet, once whole, is now crumbling to dust under the ...

Ever since we broke the bonds of gravity and ventured outside Earth's atmosphere, we have been traveling on a journey with ...

For years, scientists believed Vesta, one of the biggest objects in the asteroid belt, was more than just an asteroid. They ...

ELVIS, a new holographic microscope developed at Portland State University, could help advance efforts to look for life on other worlds.

NASA’s Lucy spacecraft captures asteroid Donaldjohanson, marking a new step in its mission to explore the solar system’s ...

Biomass is the first satellite equipped with a P-band synthetic aperture radar, which is capable of penetrating forest ...

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

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.

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