On January 5, 2005, astronomers at NASA discovered Eris, the second-largest dwarf planet in the solar system. Eris is just slightly smaller than Pluto, and it orbits the sun about three times farther ...

New research sheds light on F-type stars. Could these hot and massive stars be the key to finding habitable planets and potential alien life?

Liquid water on Mars reveals potential for life but challenges NASA with technological and ethical dilemmas. Learn why this ...

Nearly 25 years after Jeff Bezos founded Blue Origin, the company is finally poised to send its first rocket to orbit. New Glenn could lift off as early as next week.

New research sheds light on icy ocean worlds like Jupiter's Europa, focusing on a novel thermodynamic concept called the ...

Researchers believe dark rocks at the site of a future Mars rover landing mission may be left over from ancient volcanic ...

Learn about the Next Generation Lunar Retroreflector and how NASA will utilize it to learn more about the Moon.

The science of the sun and its effects on the solar system is a sprawling discipline that expects a very exciting 2025 ...

UVA Engineering assistant professor Chen Cui is finding the hidden patterns in electric propulsion plasma beams that could ...

19, 2024 — A new study explores how variations ... 2024 — A research team using the ChemCam instrument onboard NASA's Curiosity rover discovered higher-than-usual amounts of manganese in ...

NASA's record-setting spacecraft was just 3.8 million miles from the sun's surface—the closest any human-made object has ever ...

Unfortunate timing The first panel of this artist's concept depicts how Uranus's magnetosphere – its protective bubble – was ...