What did NASA’s New Horizons find when it reached Pluto? The results shocked astronomers: Pluto wasn’t a lifeless rock - it was geologically active, covered in glaciers, and had a hidden ...

NEW YORK (AP) — NASA’s Webb Space Telescope has identified new clues about the surface of Pluto’s largest moon. It detected for the first time traces of carbon dioxide and hydrogen peroxide ...

Under pressure from Elon Musk’s DOGE task force, NASA is cancelling grants and contracts for everything from lunar dust ...

Pluto is too far away from Earth to be seen with the naked eye. If you stood on Pluto's surface, the Sun would merely appear to be a very bright star. Although previous images showed that ...

Venus, the hottest planet in the solar system, is estimated to have 85,000 volcanoes, based on radar images from NASA's 1989 ...

The relative quantities of volatile gases like methane and ethane can reveal key details about distant Kuiper Belt objects.

The gas giants outside our solar system are not capable of hosting extraterrestrial life, but do offer clues in a lingering ...

NASA's New Horizons spacecraft made its closest approach to Pluto Tuesday morning, and even though we've only seen a small trickle of data so far, the findings are already surprising scientists.

Venus may be far more geologically alive than anyone expected. New research suggests its outer crust could be churning with ...

Stranded NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams are heading home after the SpaceX capsule sent to rescue them ...

A blue atmosphere, smooth areas, and youthful mountain ranges - this dwarf planet is full of surprises. When NASA's New Horizons probe flew past Pluto in July 2015, the images it returned astonished ...