The outer planets of the solar system are swarmed by ice-wrapped moons. Some of these, such as Saturn's moon Enceladus, are ...

Small icy moons in the outer reaches of our solar system may hide boiling oceans underneath their surfaces, a new study finds ...

Roughly four and a half billion years ago the planet Theia slammed into Earth, destroying Theia, melting large fractions of ...

While the feds idled, an interstellar object known as 3I/ATLAS was barnstorming the solar system, at a speed that reached 153 ...

Astronomers have spotted an intriguing cluster of objects in the Kuiper belt, an enormous, donut-shaped region of icy objects ...

NASA's nearly complete Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope has made another set of critical strides toward launch. This fall, ...

At the farthest reach of the Sun’s influence, NASA’s Voyager 1 spacecraft has stumbled into a region that behaves less like ...

Though it generated beautiful auroras around the world, the Gannon solar storm in 2024 was also a little dangerous.

Major space missions in 2025 are reshaping exploration. Here's a detailed look at key NASA missions, global projects, and the ...

Common moss spores survived nine months bolted to the outside of the International Space Station, paving the way toward space ...

A species of moss survived for 9 months on the outside of the International Space Station, new research reveals — and 80% of ...