The discovery strengthens the case for a new mission to orbit and land on Enceladus and search for evidence of life.

Astronomers have recently tracked a massive rogue planet, referred to as a “super-Jupiter,” that is drifting toward our solar neighborhood. This discovery has captured the attention of the scientific ...

A research group in Japan has suggested that ash released from volcanic eruptions on Nishinoshima Island—part of Japan's Ogasawara Islands—led to a temporary surge in phytoplankton levels in the ...

A mysterious "rogue" planet has been observed gobbling six billion tonnes of gas and dust a second -- an unprecedented rate ...

A major international study has identified Antarctic sea ice as a critical predictor of how much heat Earth’s oceans will ...

Using the Open Exoplanet Catalog and NASA’s Eye on Exoplanets website provides new way to study Kepler’s and Newton’s laws ...

A UCLA astronomer who leads planetary defense missions for NASA says avoiding asteroid impacts is “a problem we can ...

Our solar system is a smashing success. A new study suggests that from its earliest period—even before the last of its ...

Ariel, one of Uranus' icy moons, may once have concealed a vast ocean more than 100 miles (170 kilometers) deep beneath its ...

Today marks a new era in the history of Scripps Institution of Oceanography as Meenakshi Wadhwa takes the reins as the 12th ...

It's not the first time there have been claims of signs of life on Mars, so why are scientists particularly thrilled now?

A fresh analysis of old data has found rich organic chemistry within the hidden ocean of Saturn’s moon Enceladus ...