As missions prepare to visit ocean worlds like Enceladus and Europa, new findings show scientists must first learn to ...

An international team of researchers has just revealed the existence of three Earth-sized planets in the binary stellar ...

New research from Rice University suggests that the giant planet Jupiter reshaped the early solar system in dramatic ways, ...

Scientists reveal how the DART mission asteroid impact blasted 35 million pounds of debris and changed Dimorphos’ orbit. (CREDIT: Shutterstock) When engineers at a control center in Turin, Italy, sent ...

Webb just spotted a carbon-rich moon factory 625 light-years away, revealing how moons like ours may have first taken shape.

Earth has breached a critical boundary for ocean acidification, with potentially grim effects for ocean ecosystems and human ...

Astronomers using data from the W. M. Keck Observatory on Maunakea in Hawaiʻi Island have identified a rare, ancient ...

After four rounds of layoffs in two years that cut a quarter of its employees, the Jet Propulsion Laboratory now faces a ...

On Monday (Oct. 6), the nonprofit Planetary Society held a "day of action" to urge Congress to restore NASA's science funding, which was slashed nearly in half in the White House's proposed 2026 ...

NASA has thrown a lifeline to scientists working on a mission to visit an asteroid that will make an unusually close flyby of ...

Earth still only has one true natural satellite — our 2,159-mile-wide moon oribiting about 239,000 miles away. However, ...

Planetary science is a multifaceted field that investigates the origin, evolution and present‐day state of planets, moons and other bodies within our Solar System and beyond. By integrating ...