A new study by a team from NASA JPL has shown how Europa's interior ocean rises to the surface slowly over time, creating "fossil material" on the surface.
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According to a recent study by an international team of researchers, Jupiter's moons of Io and Ganymede leave "footprints" in the planets powerful aurorae.
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In recognition of their efforts to communicate the importance of the Cassini mission, NASA's JPL recently received an Emmy nomination for their Cassini Grande Finale campaign.
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A new research study conducted by an international team of researchers indicates that life can survive in a variety of cold and briny environments.
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The Kepler mission has been put into hibernation prior to downloading data from its 18th campaign and commencing its last.
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Eclipse season in nigh... though most of us won't notice. The second eclipse season for 2018 commences with the arrival of New Moon and Brown Lunation number 1182 at 3:01 Universal Time on Friday, July 13th, 2018. This eclipse is a shallow partial, just skimming the southern hemisphere of the Earth between the Australian and Antarctic continents.
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NASA is currently partnering with companies to develop technologies for dealing with garbage during long-duration space flights.
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A new study by a team of NASA-supported researchers has shown how a giant impact could explain all of Uranus' mysteries.
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Looking to the next-generation of telescopes, a pair of astrophysicists propose using swarm robots to conduct observations instead of relying on increasingly large and complex arrays.
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In a recent study, a pair of astrophysicists suggest that Breakthrough Starshot could also test Einstein's Theory of Special Relativity while traveling to Alpha Centauri.
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An unusual celestial spectacle unfolds for observers around the Great Lakes region next Tuesday at dawn. The Moon has been faithfully occulting (passing in front of) the bright star Aldebaran for every lunation now since January 29th, 2015. This split second events have touched on nearly every farflung corner of the Earth. Now the United States and Canada get to see the penultimate event, as the waning crescent Moon occults Aldebaran one last time for North America.
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NASA recently partnered with the Boulder-based drone company Black Swift to create an unmanned aerial system to explore Venus' cloud tops for signs of life.
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A team of international astronomers recently captured the first image of a newly-formed planet, which will allow astronomers to test models of planetary formation
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A new study by a team of astronomers from Australia and Turkey has determined that space is filled with immense amounts of grease-like molecules.
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In response to the report issued by an Independent Review Board, NASA has decided to delay the launch of the James Webb Space Telescope to 2021.
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Using data from ground-based observatories and the Hubble space telescope, an international team of scientists found evidence that 'Oumuamua is an interstellar comet after all.
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