Armed with the world's largest digital camera, the Vera C. Rubin Observatory in Chile will take night-sky images that ...

Astronomers tracking an interstellar object flying through the solar system think it comes from a star at least 8 billion ...

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER — NASA's Europa Clipper mission on Monday launched a satellite to investigate Europa, Jupiter’s “mysterious moon” — a world covered in ice that scientists say could ...

"Eight minutes later, the orbiter started receiving data from the descent probe, which slammed into the top of the Jovian atmosphere at a comet-like speed of 170,000 kilometers per hour," NASA ...

Lonnie Johnson, a NASA engineer, invented the Super Soaker, revolutionizing playtime after an accidental water release during an experiment. His success funded clean energy research and education ...

John R. Casani, a longtime Jet Propulsion Laboratory engineer, project manager and researcher, died at the age of 92 last week. Casani served a central role in many of NASA’s historic deep sp… ...

Scientists using old flyby data from NASA's Galileo mission have found stronger evidence that Jupiter's moon Callisto has an ocean.

NASA's Europa Clipper spacecraft lifted off Monday from Kennedy Space Center in Florida aboard a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket, kicking off a $5.2 billion robotic mission to explore one of the most ...

An artist’s concept of NASA’s Europa Clipper spacecraft swooping over Jupiter’s icy ocean-bearing moon Europa, a hot spot in humanity’s epochal search for alien life.

NASA's Europa Clipper probe will study Jupiter's moon Europa, which is thought to have an underground ocean and a potentially habitable environment.