See Jupiter's “frosted cupcake” clouds in this 3D rendering created using data from NASA's Juno mission. It's the first time ...

The Europa Clipper mission, NASA's largest planetary science spacecraft to date, aims to determine if Jupiter's moon Europa possesses the necessary ingredients for life within its vast subsurface ...

Skywatchers on Thursday evening, Feb. 6, will notice an eye-catching pairing-off between two of the brightest objects in the ...

No matter how many missions to Mars she takes part in, the sheer joy of unearthing discoveries about the red planet never gets old for Mariek Schmidt.

After terminating its diversity programs, the space agency is reviewing whether several science committees are complying with ...

NASA's Juno spacecraft has discovered a giant volcanic hot spot on the surface of Jupiter's hellish moon Io. The eruptions in ...

President Donald Trump and Elon Musk announced this week that SpaceX, the space exploration company founded by Musk, will be ...

The building blocks of life could have been delivered to Ceres by one or more space rocks from the outer asteroid belt.

Ceres, the largest object in the asteroid belt, holds fascinating clues about the origins of organic molecules in ou.

The organic material found in a few areas on the surface of dwarf planet Ceres is probably of exogenic origin. Impacting ...

The dwarf planet is a bizarre, cryovolcanic world. However, the organic deposits discovered on its surface so far are unlikely to originate from its interior. The organic material found in a few areas ...