The northern hemisphere is displayed in this global view of the surface of Venus as seen by NASA Magellan spacecraft. This is a NASA Hubble Space Telescope ultraviolet-light image of the planet Venus, ...
When NASA launched a spacecraft to an asteroid, scientists patiently waited for their chance to look at bits of the space ...
The eruption released energy six times greater than all Earth's power plants combined, exceeding 80,000 trillion watts.
NASA’s Juno spacecraft has uncovered an immense volcanic hot spot on Jupiter’s moon Io, surpassing any previously recorded ...
A scoop of dust from an ancient time capsule hurtling through space has forced a rethink of how inert matter became all that ...
Researchers have made a potentially crucial breakthrough in solar science that could help predict solar flares with greater ...
The OSIRIS-REx mission returned to the sample to Earth in September of 2023, and these studies show that it contains amino ...
A newly confirmed exoplanet around a nearby sunlike star might be astronomers’ best chance yet to look for life beyond the ...
The closest of the asteroids to us—estimated to be about the size of a car—is whizzing through space at 27,358 miles per hour ...
The acid yellow moon Io that orbits Jupiter may be less than 30% the size of Earth, but is considered the most volcanic body ...
NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission delivered samples from asteroid Bennu, revealing crucial molecules linked to life, including amino acids and nucleobases found in DNA and RNA. The presence of ammonia and ...
In October 2020, a van-sized robotic spacecraft briefly touched down on the surface of Bennu, a 525-meter-wide asteroid 320 million kilometers from Earth.