Hunting for the building blocks of life? Located in the asteroid belt, Ceres is likely a good bet, study finds ...

The International Astronomical Union’s Minor Planet Center, which catalogs new moons and other small bodies in the solar system, announced the discovery on May 21. At roughly 435 miles wide, 2017 ...

Scientists studying the atmosphere of Saturn's moon Titan have discovered a mysterious, gyroscopic motion they can't quite explain.

NASA's Perseverance rover is exploring a new Mars region called Krokodillen, which is thought to harbor some of the oldest and most intriguing rocks on the Red Planet.

Scientists are analysing the smells of space – from the aroma onboard space stations to planets hundreds of light years away ...

Twenty years ago, the US Congress instructed NASA to find 90% of near-Earth asteroids threatening Earth. They’ve made progress finding these asteroids that orbit the Sun and come to within 1.3 ...

But what is the science behind extraterrestrial life? Is it possible that humans will ever experience "first contact" with an ...

For decades, our solar system was thought to have nine planets, with Pluto considered the smallest and farthest. But in 2006, ...

Jupiter, roughly 562 million miles from Earth today, has nearly 100 moons. But Batygin and his collaborator Fred Adams' research focused on two of the smaller ones, Amalthea and Thebe. Both are inside ...

Claims for the detection of life on other planets go back decades. Here's why you should still be skeptical despite recent ...

A recent study found that Jupiter was once twice the size that it is now, making it big enough to swallow up 2,000 Earths.