New measurements have revealed that Jupiter — the largest planet in our solar system — is actually smaller and more flattened ...

Naval Postgraduate School students participate in the last class ever to operate FLTSATCOM. For more than 30 years, it has ...

For years, astronomers believed that Makemake, one of the brightest icy bodies beyond Neptune, was a frozen relic of the outer solar system. New observations from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope ...

SOLAR flares can knock out satellites, kill GPS navigation, trigger power blackouts, and irradiate astronauts. A single major solar storm could cost the global economy $2.4 trillion over five years.

A sample obtained by NASA's Perseverance rover of reddish rock formed billions of years ago from sediment on the bottom of a lake contains potential signs of ancient microbial life on Mars. Acting ...

The dwarf planet Pluto and its five known natural satellites (Charon, Styx, Nix, Kerberos, and Hydra) may be frigid, but ...

Interstellar objects like 3I/ATLAS that have been captured in planet-forming disks around young stars could become the seeds ...

If the explosion of one of these black holes were observed, scientists “would also get a definitive record of every particle ...

NASA's Juno spacecraft has spied the final "auroral footprint" of a moon of Jupiter, meaning that it has watched as the moon ...

On the Red Planet, aurorae glow green because the charged particles collide with oxygen atoms high above Mars. They may be ...

The James Webb Space Telescope cannot observe Earth directly. It is too bright and could damage the telescope. However, ...

A Falcon 9 rocket is scheduled to lift off from Launch Complex-39A, at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, on Sept. 23 at 7:32 a.m. EDT (1132 GMT). Stowed inside Falcon's payl ...