NASA's plan to return humans to the moon has changed. As engineers work to fix issues with the Artemis 2 mission's Space Launch System (SLS) rocket, NASA officials are reexamining what flights will ...

If you examine our solar system’s giant planets, you’ll notice right away that they’ve all got moons—a lot of moons. While ...

Simulated lunar dirt can be turned into extremely durable structures, potentially paving the way to more sustainable and cost ...

NASA on Friday announced an abrupt change to its pathway to getting astronauts back on the lunar surface, opting to add in an ...

While aliens in science fiction hop between planets on vast spaceships, scientists say real-life extraterrestrials might take ...

New photos captured by NASA's Curiosity rover show that Mars' giant, spiderweb-like "boxwork" features are covered in tiny, never-before-seen nodules that bear a striking resemblance to arachnid ...

Gypsum is a soft, translucent sulfate mineral that allows just enough light to penetrate for photosynthetic organisms to survive inside, while also protecting them from being desiccated or exposed to ...

Aliens exist – they just haven't visited Earth, a NASA veteran has claimed. Dr Gentry Lee has worked at the US space agency since 1968, when he first got involved with the Viking mission to Mars. He ...

If you think auroras on Earth are a strange and mesmerizing sight, that's nothing like what occurs on the perplexing world of Uranus.

New research using the James Webb Space Telescope offers the most detailed portrait yet of how auroras form on Uranus.

Astrobiologists say we could find evidence of microbial life within the next 10–20 years. What does that mean? Where are we ...

If Mars is a long-term dream, then the Moon is emerging as a strategic move and could be the key to realizing Elon Musk's dream of a multi-planetary existence.