Designed to build landing pads, roads, and even homes, it could help humans become an interplanetary species.

A NASA research facility in Ohio has been renamed after astronaut Neil Armstrong, the first man to walk on the moon.

The last major space weather event struck the Earth in 1859. Smaller, but still significant, space weather events occur regularly.

The study's Psyche findings are a step toward resolving the mystery of the origin of this unusual object

Scientists have solved a long-standing mystery about the Sun that could help astronomers predict space weather and geomagnetic storms

A new technique for processing lunar radar data has allowed scientists to see what lies beneath the surface of the moon in detail.

NASA is planning a mission up to an asteroid that is hurtling around in our solar system, and it could be a seriously lucrative mission.

The researchers detected the stars, whose rhythms arise from internal sound waves and provide the opening chords of a symphonic exploration

In a world-first, astronomers have captured the first moments of a supernova—the explosive death of stars—in detail never-before-seen.

As missions like NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope, TESS and Kepler continue to provide insights into the properties of exoplanets

A combination of a once-debunked 19th-century identification of a water-carrying iron mineral and the fact that these rocks are extremely...

For years scientists have been debating what might lay under the Martian planet’s south polar cap and initially attributed it to water.

Watching X-rays flung out into the universe by the supermassive black hole at the center of a galaxy 800 million light-years away

For the first time, astronomers have uncovered evidence of water vapor in the atmosphere of Jupiter's moon Ganymede.

It forever changed history when it crashed into Earth about 66 million years ago. The Chicxulub impactor left behind a crater off the coast

A new open data nonprofit scientific initiative by Avi Loeb will use a network of telescopes, cameras and computers to scan for alien life

A miniature device that scans deep below ground is being developed to identify ice deposits and hollow lava tubes on the moon for settlement

NASA predicts that beneath Jupiter's icy moon Europa lies a salty ocean with more water than all of Earth's oceans combined.

Nobody knew that the existence of a black hole could prove to be real someday. Wormholes, just like black holes, are a mathematical...

Vanderbilt astrophysicist has led a series of studies that make the first case for a gravitational wave infrastructure on the moon.