The US Navy is advancing its mine countermeasure capabilities with new contracts to develop the most advanced unmanned naval ...

Five of the brightest planets will be visible to the naked eye. With help, you may even spot Uranus and Neptune.

"With an orbital period of 570 days, it is a relatively cold gas giant planet," said Guðmundur Stefánsson of the University ...

After terminating its diversity programs, the space agency is reviewing whether several science committees are complying with ...

The space agency's planetary science analysis groups must pause while NASA checks if they comply with Trump's orders.

A newly confirmed exoplanet around a nearby sunlike star might be astronomers’ best chance yet to look for life beyond the ...

On Feb. 24, from west to east, you can see Mercury, Saturn, Neptune, Venus, Uranus, Jupiter and Mars, all spanning 117.5°, plus Earth under your feet—all eight known planets of our solar system!

A shortcut for New Yorkers to spot some of the planets is to look for them when they are near the moon. On Feb. 1, Venus will ...

Scientists studying samples that NASA collected from the asteroid Bennu found a wide assortment of organic molecules that shed light on how life arose.

The Artemis program has been NASA's best chance to get "boots on the moon" again. But with the new US administration taking ...

His team at Honeybee Robotics Exploration Systems has already designed robotic instruments that have sped across the solar system, including on the Mars Phoenix lander, the Mars Exploration Rovers ...