A combination of a once-debunked 19th-century identification of a water-carrying iron mineral and the fact that these rocks are extremely...

For years scientists have been debating what might lay under the Martian planet’s south polar cap and initially attributed it to water.

Watching X-rays flung out into the universe by the supermassive black hole at the center of a galaxy 800 million light-years away

For the first time, astronomers have uncovered evidence of water vapor in the atmosphere of Jupiter's moon Ganymede.

It forever changed history when it crashed into Earth about 66 million years ago. The Chicxulub impactor left behind a crater off the coast

NASA predicts that beneath Jupiter's icy moon Europa lies a salty ocean with more water than all of Earth's oceans combined.

Nobody knew that the existence of a black hole could prove to be real someday. Wormholes, just like black holes, are a mathematical...

Vanderbilt astrophysicist has led a series of studies that make the first case for a gravitational wave infrastructure on the moon.

Astronomers have unambiguously detected the presence of a disc around a planet outside our Solar System for the first time.

The 22-foot, 3,000-pound, steel and carbon fiber spaceman, positioned arms up in a V inspired by a signature Michael Jackson pose

NASA wants standards for evaluating claims of extraterrestrial life to help the public judge if discoveries are believable or not

Can you make food from thin air? NASA asked the same question and the challenge of feeding a year-long space mission led to a discovery

The technique is being developed to detect venusquakes. A new study details how it made the first balloon-borne detection of a quakes

The US space agency on Saturday celebrated the 100th birthday of astronaut John Glenn who changed the history of spaceflight

What should future spacecraft engines be able to do? One major goal would be for it to allow spacecraft to travel through the solar system

Sir Richard Branson and his team of astronauts successfully ventured into space before returning to Earth in their Unity 22 space pla

Europa is the sixth nearest moon to Jupiter and is roughly the same size as our own. Thanks to data retrieved by the Galileo space probe

NASA has approved the Near-Earth Object Surveyor space telescope (NEO Surveyor) to move to the next phase of mission development

Virgin Orbit has followed on from its first trip to space with a mission that marks the beginning of its commercial satellite launch service

Designed to improve navigation for robotic explorers and the operation of GPS satellites, the technology demonstration reports a significant