Elon Musk said his company, SpaceX, has shifted focus to establishing a human settlement on the moon before doing so on Mars ...

A recent study points to an exciting possibility: that Uranus's moon Miranda, located in the far reaches of our solar system, may harbor a hidden ocean and life.

Satellite images, captured on January 28 and published by NASA, reveal ice accumulation in New York City’s waterways.

Scientists have found a powerful new way to follow water as it moves around the planet—by tracking subtle “fingerprints” hidden inside its atoms.

General Galactic, co-founded by a former SpaceX engineer, aims to eventually build a propellant station on Mars.

Tiny grains of dust from asteroid Bennu are reshaping how scientists think life’s ingredients formed in space.

Amino acids, the building blocks necessary for life, were previously found in samples of 4.6-billion-year-old rocks from an asteroid called Bennu, delivered to Earth in 2023 by NASA's OSIRIS-REx ...

The candidate is coined HD 137010 b. It would orbit a K-type dwarf star approximately 146 light-years from Earth. The evidence comes from a single transit pattern seen in K2 data from 2017: the star ...

Researchers from NASA’s Jet Propulsion Lab (JPL) recently detected the presence of ammonia — a nitrogen-bearing compound crucial to supporting life — on ...

Belief that Musk can get six boosters to successfully refuel the moon-bound spacecraft has a reader wondering who has been ...

General Galactic, cofounded by a former SpaceX engineer, plans to test its water-based propellant this fall. If successful, it could help usher in a new era of space travel. That's a big “if.” ...

NASA and China are targeting lunar south pole missions by 2030, advancing lunar exploration, data center development, and orbital computing capabilities, according to Space.com.