During the height of the Space Race, space exploration occupied a much larger place in American culture and education.

While life on Mars (and Venus) has long been an obsession for those wondering if we're alone, there are other places in our ...

The Gaia mission has allowed researchers to understand the motions of stars like never before, even revealing possible interactions between our solar system and nearby stars. Planetary Science ...

Astronomers believe the object, dubbed 'Oumuamua, came from the general direction of the Lyra constellation ...

The outer solar system once seemed like a quiet backwater. But a glut of tiny, strange moons with unruly orbits are coming into view, revealing hints of a surprising past – and the origin of Saturn's ...

NASA’s Lucy spacecraft discovered that asteroid Donaldjohanson is a wobbling, peanut-shaped relic born from a violent ...

US firm Vast is developing spinning space stations with artificial gravity to keep astronauts healthy on deep-space missions and push the search for alien life.

NASA's Lucy spacecraft revealed that a bizarre wobbling, peanut-shaped asteroid holds surprising clues about ancient water ...

A colossal ancient collision may have left some of the Moon’s deepest secrets surprisingly close to future Artemis landing ...

Lunar mantle rocks may be waiting at NASA’s Artemis IV south pole landing sites — ancient impact simulations and GRAIL ...

A planet nearly ten times wider than Earth sounds like the definition of solidity. Saturn certainly looks that way.

Giant mirrors in space have been a staple of science fiction for decades. But so far, there's been very little work looking ...