NASA’s Habitable Worlds Observatory "will draw on technologies proven by the agency’s Hubble, Webb and upcoming Roman Space ...

"We aren’t going to see little green men but rather spectral signatures of these key chemicals, or what we call biosignatures." When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...

NASA's Space Place Art Challenge is a fun and creative way for kids to learn more about what lies beyond our own Earth. This month the contest is wanting young people to break out their creativeness ...

New research may shine a light on part of outer space's great mysteries: the Oort Cloud. The Oort Cloud is the name given to a theorized group of potentially trillions of icy objects on the edge of ...

NASA is preparing for the launch of its fifth New Frontiers mission, NF-5, aimed at exploring high-priority scientific targets across the solar system. Expected to be formally announced no earlier ...

This article was originally published at The Conversation. The publication contributed the article to Space.com's Expert Voices: Op-Ed & Insights. Brad Gibson, Director of the E.A. Milne Centre for ...

Scientists have just discovered a rare interstellar object hurtling through the solar system, and it's expected to make its closest approach to Earth on October 30. Officially named 3I/ATLAS, the ...

Viewed from orbit, Jackass Flats — situated in southern Nevada about 65 miles northwest of Las Vegas — could easily be confused for Mars. The alluvial basin is full of tan and gray regolith, hued ...

It’s a stellar discovery. A Manhattan-sized interstellar comet was spotted blazing through our solar system — marking only the third time a mysterious object from beyond our cosmic neighborhood has ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — Astronomers have discovered a rare in-sync solar system with six planets moving like a grand cosmic orchestra, untouched by outside forces since their birth billions of ...

NASA has found sugars essential for life on Earth in samples of the 4.6 billion-year-old Bennu asteroid. Scientists ...

NASA has discovered a new interstellar comet that's currently located about 420 million miles away from Earth. The space agency spotted the quick-moving object with the Atlas telescope in Chile on ...