A celestial event will occur this September, with the moon, Venus and Regulus aligning in a conjunction. Visible to the naked ...

NASA's Deep Space Optical Communications technology has successfully shown that data encoded in lasers can be reliably transmitted, received, and decoded after traveling millions of miles from Earth ...

Astronomers might be close to confirming the presence of an Earth-like atmosphere on an exoplanet for the first time, ...

Asteroid 2024 DW flew about 139,000 miles (224,000 km) away from Earth. The space rock was estimated to be about 43 feet wide (13 m). Credit: Space.com | animation: NASA/JPL-Caltech | edited by Steve ...

To date, over 5000 exoplanets have been discovered using telescopes on the ground and in space. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech ...

NASA Juno spacecraft data has been used to create an animation of "Steeple Mountain" and a lava lake known as Loki Patera on Jupiter's moon Io. Credit: Space.com | NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/MSSS | edited ...

The big question will be whether or not scientists can demonstrate that greigite and vivianite need biological life to form.

Unlock the captivating history of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) from its 1930s inception to future missions. Explore ...

Rovers explore distant planets for decades, where humans can't yet go. Here's how NASA sends updates to these rovers from miles away to keep them running.

NASA’s Mars rover finds organic signals in mudstone that resemble microbial activity, sparking new debate over life on the ...

NASA's Perseverance rover on Mars has collected its 24th sample of Jezero Crater. The 'Comet Geyser' sample is "great for ...

The "potentially hazardous" asteroid 2025 FA22 will fly close past Earth at more than 24,000 mph on Thursday (Sept. 18). The ...