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

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 ...

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

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

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

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 ...

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 ...

The spacecraft lifted off Monday on a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket, embarking on a nearly six-year journey to Jupiter.

Comet Tsuchinshan-Atlas made its closest pass to Earth this weekend, but weather permitting, it should be visible to the ...

WASHINGTON, Oct 13 (Reuters) - NASA is set to launch a spacecraft to Jupiter's moon Europa, considered one of our solar ...

The Great Red Spot, or GRS, is an anticyclone, or a large circulation of winds in Jupiter’s atmosphere that rotates around a ...