New 3I/ATLAS images from NASA and the ESA suggest the interstellar comet is active as it approaches Earth in December.

The Bennu asteroid, a space rock not too far from Earth that is rich in carbon, continues to be a trove of information for ...

The Wide Field Camera 3 instrument gives the telescope the ability to capture a panchromatic view of objects flying through ...

Samples collected from the asteroid Bennu are continuing the shed light on the origins of the solar system and how life ...

Elisha Sauers writes about space for Mashable, taking deep dives into NASA's moon and Mars missions, chatting up astronauts ...

"I'm becoming much more optimistic that we may be able to find life beyond Earth, even in our own solar system." ...

Three more papers on the samples brought back from asteroid Bennu reveal the place contains the building blocks of DNA and ...

NASA has unveiled a series of new discoveries that make the possibility of alien life elsewhere in the universe more ...

Viewed from orbit, Jackass Flats — situated in southern Nevada about 65 miles northwest of Las Vegas — could easily be confused for Mars. The alluvial basin is full of tan and gray regolith, hued ...

Voyager 1 and 2 traveled billions of miles to reach the heliopause, showing how the Sun's magnetic influence marks the ...

A NASA mission to study the heliosphere—the sun's magnetic bubble that shields our solar system—and develop a better understanding of space weather was launched from the agency's Kennedy Space Center ...

The New Horizons spacecraft sends back its sensational snapshots of Jupiter, and its volcanic moon Io, before the mission's close encounter with Pluto (Photo by: Photo12/Universal Images Group via ...