In the 17th century, astronomers Christiaan Huygens and Giovanni Cassini trained their telescopes on Saturn and uncovered a ...

Scientists got a never-before-seen look at an area around a large exoplanet 625 light-years away where moons could ...

The striking thing about this is that repeating the procedure on the star turned up no evidence of carbon-based chemicals, ...

Jeremy Hansen, Victor Glover, Reid Wiseman, and Christina Koch - pose in front of an Orion crew module at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center on 8 August 2023.

Musk’s goal for his Mars colonization program “is to become a space-faring civilization and a multi-planet species,” as an ...

New observations suggest that the dwarf planet Makemake is surrounded by faintly glowing methane gas. Scientists are unsure ...

Several companies firmly believe that mining for helium-3 (He-3) on the moon is a real potential money-maker. But is there an economic return on investment in scouring Earth's moon for that natural ...

Blue Origin is working with partners in Luxembourg on a campaign called Project Oasis, which aims to identify valuable resources on the moon.

The moon is sometimes called "two-faced" because the surface of its side perpetually facing away from Earth looks so different than its side always facing our planet. And the differences run deeper ...

An Earth-observing radar satellite launched in July jointly between the U.S. and India has returned its first images of our planet’s surface.