Saturn’s moon Enceladus has long dazzled scientists with its icy plumes that spew water and mysterious organic molecules into space, fueling hopes of a habitable ocean beneath. But new experiments ...

TRAPPIST-1, a planetary system 40 light years from Earth, could host a planet with an atmosphere and liquid water, but astronomers can’t be certain just yet.

You still may be able to spot the Milky Way's galactic center in the night sky across the US, but time is running out.

NASA spotted a new moon almost at the border of our solar system. Back in 1986, a theory came up that this cosmic body could ...

Analysis by researchers at the University of Bern suggests that water and other volatile compounds arrived on Earth from ...

Faint hydrogen signals from the cosmic Dark Ages may soon help determine the mass of dark matter particles. Simulations suggest future Moon-based observatories could distinguish between warm and cold ...

Material collected from an asteroid via spacecraft closely matches the heavier elements of the sun, providing scientists with ...

UTSA is teaming up with the Southwest Research Institute to test technology designed to solve challenges space missions may ...

By capturing the same thing from very different perspectives, a NASA astronaut and an intrepid photographer create a whole ...

Organic molecules detected in the watery plumes that spew out from cracks in the surface of Enceladus could be formed through ...

Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) and The University of Texas at San Antonio (UT San Antonio) will flight test novel ...

New study provides clearer insight into how the Moon formed and why its materials closely resemble those of Earth.