The US wants to put a flag on Mars. But there’s a risk it could carry unwanted stowaways that might compromise future ...

Its official name is the Apollo Lunar Sample Return Container No. 1008, but everyone, including Teasel Muir-Harmony, curator ...

How would detecting methane help astronomers identify if exoplanets, or even exomoons, have life as we know it, or even as we ...

To get somewhere in outer space, you can’t exactly drive in a straight line. Orbits are tricky things, and sending a probe to ...

Of all the planets in our solar system apart from Earth, Saturn tends to steal the show with its breathtaking rings, which have fascinated people for centuries.

NASA shares an iconic image of carbon dioxide ice erupting in geysers when Martian winter turns to spring.

Scientists studying Saturn's icy moon, Enceladus, have discovered that its ocean forms layers that slow the upward movement ...

NASA’s Dragonfly rotorcraft lander is designed for flight on Saturn's moon Titan. See a "half-scale Dragonfly lander model" in tests at NASA Langley. Credit: Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory M ...

James Webb Space Telescope and the W.M. Keck Observatory captured new images of Saturn's moon Titan. Credit: NASA/STScI/W. M. Keck Observatory/Judy Schmidt | edited by Space.com's Steve Spaleta ...

Scientists are unraveling the mysteries of Titan, Saturn’s largest moon, and its dense nitrogen-rich atmosphere. Despite its ...

This mission showed that the asteroid Bennu contains amino acids and chemical compounds present in human DNA. This shows, firstly, that the solar system had essential materials for life 4,5 billion ...