As you may recall from a recent column, the final fate of Earth depends on the last stages of the sun’s life, its red-giant ...

Elon Musk thinks humankind's only safety valve is to move multitudes to Mars. He has no idea how foolhardy and dangerous that ...

New photos of comet Tsuchinshan-ATLAS appear to show a faint "anti-tail" pointing away in the wrong direction. The puzzling ...

We have been adding “leap seconds” to time kept by our atomic clocks, but soon we may have to subtract one. Are the tiny ...

NASA has launched the Europa Clipper spacecraft, which will investigate whether the Jovian moon has conditions that support ...

The ambitious mission won't actually look for life on Jupiter's moon Eruopa, but it should find out if the presumed ocean ...

Research indicates that Ceres, initially believed to be rocky, is predominantly icy, challenging earlier views. The findings ...

NASA launched a spacecraft from Florida on Monday on a mission to examine whether Jupiter's moon Europa has conditions ...

The space agency collected imagery from Hubble over a roughly 90-day period between December 2023 and March 2024 as the telescope focused on the largest known ...

NASA launched a spacecraft from Florida today on a mission to examine whether Jupiter’s moon Europa has conditions suitable to support life, with a focus on the large subsurface ocean believed to be ...

Managed by JPL scientists and technicians, it will take Europa Clipper 5 1/2 years to reach Jupiter, where it will slip into ...

The huge spacecraft is headed toward the icy moon Europa, where it will use an array of instruments to survey for geologic activity, magnetism and more ...