A rare planetary parade of six planets will light up the night sky at the end of February, with four visible to the naked eye ...

A new study hints that Saturn's largest moon, Titan, was created around 400 million years ago, when two massive moons smashed ...

CAPE CANAVERAL SPACE FORCE STATION — NASA and Blue Origin are planning to launch the ESCAPADE mission, where a pair of satellites will study Mars' magnetosphere. ESCAPADE will eventually help future ...

Delta on Mars. A recent study showed that Mars was warm and wet billions of years ago. The finding contrasts with another ...

A single scenario could explain some of the odd features of Saturn's cosmic neighborhood. A project that set out to seek the origin of the planet's rings and why Titan’s orbit is expanding may have ...

The Deep Space Network enables communication with all the missions in space, from telescopes like Hubble to rovers and orbiters at Mars, and this week we feature one of those dishes alongside some ...

Roughly 4.5 billion years ago, a Mars-sized protoplanet called Theia slammed into early Earth, an event believed to have formed the Moon and shaped life as we know it. But what if that impact never ...

Astronomers have discovered what appears to be an exoplanet that could be a distant Earthly paradise. Or it could be a frigid realm even chillier than Mars, incapable of supporting life. The margins ...

Scientists believe these rocks were formed by ancient rainfall and humidity, similar to processes on Earth. The discovery adds to the evidence that Mars may have once been a habitable planet capable ...

The race to compile a sort of catalogue of the planets orbiting distant Suns is intensifying, with the upcoming Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, for instance, set to spot tens of thousands of such ...

WASHINGTON — NASA is ending financial support for several planetary science groups as part of a broader drawdown of the agency’s advisory structure. In a Jan. 16 letter, Louise Prockter, director of ...

NASA is quietly ending financial support for independent planetary science advisory groups, according to a letter posted to the agency’s website on January 16. The affected groups have historically ...