Turn a telescope to the eastern sky in the hours following midnight on Nov. 5 to see two colossal shadows darken the cloud ...

When a mudflat crumbles on Earth, or an ice sheet splinters on one of Jupiter's moons (Europa), or an ancient lakebed breaks ...

Steam poured from beneath the Falcon Heavy rocket, quickly followed by bright propulsion as it rose into the clear Florida sky Monday, launching its spacecraft on a more than five year journey to ...

NASA’s Europa Clipper is now soaring towards Jupiter to look for an environment that could support extraterrestrial life. The spacecraft is the largest NASA has ever developed for a planetary mission.

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — A NASA spacecraft is ready to set sail for Jupiter and its moon Europa, one of the best bets for finding life beyond Earth. Europa Clipper will peer beneath the moon’s icy ...

A laser-based ice drill can bore deep, narrow channels into ice while keeping both mass and energy requirements lower than ...

An asteroid named 2025 PN7 has been in quasi-orbit of Earth for approximately 60 years. It's expected to stay there for ...

On the early hours of November 5, Jupiter's moons Io and Europa will cast their shadows over the planet's cloud surface, visible through a telescope.

Moons like Europa, Titan, and Enceladus may hold the ingredients for alien life, with NASA missions set to investigate.

Mike Brown is convinced that beyond Neptune, at the far reaches of our solar system, there's an unseen giant planet. "This is the 5th largest planet in our solar system, lurking out there, waiting to ...

Water on exoplanets may be more common than we thought, and that could be good news for alien-hunters. A few recent discoveries hint that the so-called habitable zone (the region where temperatures ...

(Top to bottom) Surface crack patterns on three different worlds: Mars, Europa, and Earth that reveal how fractures form under vastly different environmental conditions. Penn geophysicist Douglas ...