The spacecraft succeeded where many had failed, peering Venus’ suffocating clouds to showing us the planet’s face for the ...

Michael Collins piloted the command module, briefly becoming the most isolated human in the galaxy as he orbited the dark side of the moon ...

A NASA spacecraft is ready to set sail for Jupiter and its moon Europa, one of the best bets for finding life beyond Earth.

Our gleaming blue marble of a planet is a treasure that shimmers and sparkles in the darkness of space. Most of humanity will ...

Two years ago, perhaps inspired by Dr. Wilson, the United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity laid out a global effort ...

It won't land, but the robotic spacecraft will fly as close as 16 miles to the moon's frozen surface to probe oceans of ...

NASA is set to launch a jumbo spacecraft, Europa Clipper, to see if an icy moon of Jupiter has the characteristics of a ...

"These pockets of water on our planet are often teeming with simple life, including algae, fungi, and cyanobacteria," the ...

Microbes -- alive and thriving -- have been found sealed within a fracture of 2-billion-year-old rock beneath Earth's surface ...

According to new research, scientists have finally learned what the Moon's core is made of, and it's not green cheese.

The NWS Nashville shared there were little to no clouds in the night sky, making it a great viewing experience for the G4 ...

At solar maximum the sun’s magnetic field is messy, and conditions are ripe for solar explosions, like solar flares (bursts ...