The new image, which shows Earth along with an even smaller point of light coming from the moon, harkens back to Carl Sagan's ...

If an extraterrestrial intelligence were looking for signs of human communications, when and where should they look? In a new study, researchers at Penn State and NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in ...

If an extraterrestrial intelligence were looking for signs of human communications, when and where should they look? In a new ...

Space exploration is a risky endeavor, and unfortunately not all of the missions sent up will be successful, such was the fate of Lunar Trailblazer.

New NASA research has found that Ceres may have had a lasting source of chemical energy: the right types of molecules needed ...

On this day in 1977, NASA launched Voyager 2, a spacecraft that would go on to make history as one of humanity’s greatest achievements in space exploration. Today, the probe celebrates 48 years in ...

Psyche’s twin cameras recorded long-exposure images of Earth and the Moon. From 180 million miles away, both appeared as faint dots.

Nasa’s ambitious Psyche mission, now more than halfway on its journey to the metal-rich asteroid Psyche, has delivered a spectacular milestone: it ...

The Sentinel-6B satellite will soon start final preparation to ready it for launch later this year.

This image from June 20, 2013 shows the bright light of a solar flare and an eruption of solar material shooting through the ...

A billion or so years into its evolution, the icy dwarf planet Ceres may have had the right conditions to sustain life, which ...