Grab-and-go missions to asteroids have provided some of the most scientifically valuable samples since the Apollo ...

A growing fleet of privately built spacecraft is preparing to attempt robotic landings on the moon as humanity's exploration ...

Tiny bits of Earth’s atmosphere have been drifting to the moon for billions of years, guided by Earth’s magnetic field.

It’s the first supermoon of the year—and after January, stargazers won’t see another for many months. Here's how to see it.

From mudstones on Mars to strange gases in exoplanet atmospheres, tentative evidence for extraterrestrial life is starting to ...

It's one of life's biggest questions - are we alone in the universe? Now, one of Britain's top space scientists has declared ...

Scientists have long believed Saturn’s moon Titan hid a massive underground ocean, but new research suggests something even stranger: a deep, icy slush filled with pockets of warm liquid water that ...

Decades ago, a spacecraft suggested Saturn's largest moon, Titan, had an ocean. New observations suggest that the liquid may look more like slush. When you purchase through links on our site, we may ...

New oblique images from NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera (LROC) reveal enormous cracks, called grabens, curling around an ancient lunar sea on the Moon’s near-side. These grabens are part of ...

Astronauts on the Moon (like Harrison H. Schmitt, pictured collecting lunar samples in 1972) could one day live in lunar habitats made of “mooncrete.” Credit: NASA/JSC, Public Domain NASA’s Artemis ...

The best reason to send humans to Mars isn’t for guts or glory—or the construction of colonies to safeguard against existential Earth-bound risks. Instead it’s to answer a single, simple question: Is ...

Scientists are to send a spacecraft to hunt for aliens potentially hiding in our solar system. The European Space Agency (ESA) has announced a mission to Saturn's moon Enceladus, as it has all the ...