Solar System

Saturn just surpassed Jupiter as the planet with the most known moons, according to CNN. A team of scientists led by Scott S. Sheppard...

The reasonable approach – assuming the possession of such a faculty – to encountering a new planet that shows some form of...

A study presented by The Goddard Institute for Space Science's Michael Way at the EPSC-DPS Joint Meeting 2019 in Switzerland  last...

There's a verse from Genesis – the book in the Bible, not the project involving legendary drummer Phil Collins – that I frequently...

Whether you've been hoping to catch a fireball this year or you just want a better way to spend a Monday night than drinking yourself...

NASA announced last night that their much-discussed Dragonfly project which plans to deliver a quadcopter drone to the surface of...

Jupiter’s trademark red storm is breathing its last. An astronomical landmark as iconic as Saturn’s rings, recent photographs have...

It's strange to think that we'll likely see the first human colonies on Mars – a planet that appears as a tiny rust-colored dot in...

Astronomers at the SETI Institute have discovered a previously unnoticed, city-sized moon orbiting Neptune, thanks to the Hubble...

Scientists at Rice University are claiming that the essential elements – including nitrogen and carbon – that make life on Earth...

Saturn's moon Titan has been heralded as a possible home for extraterrestrial life and a target for future human colonies, largely due...

Mars may not have Christmas trees or tinsel, but a recent photo from the Mars Express orbiter has shown that it does have an...

We've seen some pretty crazy proposals for planet-exploring robots, not the least of which is a shape-shifting robot that can explore...

As Cas Anvar of The Expanse said, space is trying to kill you 24 hours a day. Whether it's powerful gravity, deadly radiation, or a...

We've been reporting on China's Chang'e-4 mission since it was announced, but Wednesday marks a major milestone for the project: the...

At approximately 12:00 pm EST NASA’s Osiris-Rex spacecraft will initiate its final descent on Bennu, coming within twelve miles of...

Are you an Emirati undergraduate getting a degree in science or engineering? Are you fascinated with the modern space race to Mars?...

Bill Nye is many things – beloved educational figure, science celebrity, and the original Science Guy – but now he has a new...

Just before Halloween, NASA's Juno spacecraft performed its 16th close flyby of Jupiter, snapping images just 4,400 miles above the...

Weather on other planets is strange. Jupiter's been dealing with a huge storm on its surface for over a century (the infamous 'Great...