Through advanced autonomy testbed programs, NASA is setting the groundwork for one of its top priorities—the search for signs ...

Japan launched the Hayabusa2 spacecraft on a mission to fetch a sample from an asteroid. The asteroid is named 162173 Ryugu, but it's also known as 1999 JU3. Hayabusa2 lifted off from the Tanegashima ...

From oceans found on distant planets to a detailed map of a fly’s brain, these findings deepened our understanding of the ...

A new study by astronomers at the University of Cambridge has revealed that Venus, Earth’s closest neighbor, may never have ...

We take a look at the current best predictions for what the solar system will look like throughout the rest of the Sun's life ...

Dark matter does pervade the solar system like an invisible fog. We just lack the means to measure its effects on solar ...

Plate tectonics seems to be crucial for life on Earth, but we’ve never confirmed that it happens on other worlds - that may ...

Those rings, however, are going to “disappear” in 2025 . Like Earth, Saturn’s axis is tilted, NASA explains. Next year, ...

A new study has identified an exoplanet that is just 3 million years old — around 1,500 times younger than Earth — alongside ...

Despite its age and an ever-dwindling power supply, the Voyager 1 probe is back in action following an issue with its ...

The spacecraft—humanity's most distant probe—managed to resumed contact by switching to a secondary radio not used since 1981 ...

The Moon also offers a handy site for an offworld seed repository of Earth’s plant life, much like the Svalbard Global Seed ...