Elon Musk is taking the long view. The billionaire SpaceX founder has long said that humanity needs to expand its footprint ...

Earth's atmosphere pulses in sync with the sun's fiery outbursts, indicating it is more sensitive to solar activity than previously thought, according to new research.

If future Mars colonizers want to survive without pressure suits, they’ll need to generate a denser atmosphere. One way to achieve this could be to bombard the Red Planet with water-rich asteroids.

One part of this plan would require increasing the planet’s atmospheric pressure, and one scientist suggests that capturing celestial objects from the Kuiper Belt—which are full of the necessary light ...

Billions of years ago, Mars had an active magnetic field ... of one of the most common types of planets outside of our solar system, according to a new ... Webb Telescope Captures Its First ...

A space startup called Helicity Space is working on a scalable fusion drive design that could revolutionize the space ...

Discovered in 1930, Pluto was long considered our Solar System's ninth planet, but was unseated in 2006 after the discovery ...

The solar system consists of our star, the sun, and everything bound to it by gravity: the planets Mercury, Venus, Earth, ...

A dazzling snapshot from ESO’s Paranal Observatory captures a rare sky parade — the Moon, a comet, and nearly every visible ...

Saturn is practically a solar system unto itself ... University Applied Physics Laboratory / NASA At Victoria Crater on Mars, the rover Opportunity examined samples of sedimentary rock.