The official number of exoplanets—planets outside our solar system—tracked by NASA has reached 6,000. Confirmed planets are ...

NASA’s IMAP mission, led by Princeton University’s David McComas, will study the heliosphere — the invisible electromagnetic ...

Earth will move between Saturn and the sun this weekend, offering prime views of Saturn in what's known as "opposition." Here's what to know.

The findings suggest Earth’s geological story was partly written in the stars – specifically, in the spiral arms of our home ...

For decades, the search for alien intelligence has revolved around the question: if someone out there is listening, how could ...

Selecting the right spot to smash a spacecraft into the surface of a hazardous asteroid to deflect it must be done with great care, according to new ...

SummaryNASA's new Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe, or IMAP, will launch no earlier than Tuesday, Sept. 23 to ...

Liftoff of the IMAP missions on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket is targeted for September 23, from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center.

Spiral arms are crowded regions of space filled with stars, dust, and gas. As the solar system traveled through them, ...

The Europa Clipper cost is estimated to be around $5 billion. This mission aims to investigate Europa’s potential for supporting life. The spacecraft is the largest NASA has built for a planetary ...

The Hubble Space Telescope time-lapse captured footage of Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune. Credit: SCIENCE: NASA, ESA, ...

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