For decades, the search for alien intelligence has revolved around the question: if someone out there is listening, how could ...

While Saturn has been visible in the night sky all of September, this weekend, the ringed planet will shine its brightest.

Every 378 days, Saturn swings into opposition, bringing it closer, brighter, and nearly 10 times easier to observe than at ...

A research team led by geophysicists at UC San Diego’s Scripps Institution of Oceanography provides an explanation for ...

The period known as "cosmic noon," which took place roughly 2 to 3 billion years after the Big Bang, was characterized by the rapid formation of new stars and planetary systems. Naturally, objects ...

According to Dean Duffy, the new NASA administrator, a rock sample collected by the Perseverance rover was the "clearest sign ...

Experiments on Earth indicate some common species of bacteria and fungi could survive for several days on the moon's surface, ...

The sun has become increasingly active since 2008, a new NASA study shows. Solar activity is known to fluctuate in cycles of 11 years, but there are longer-term variations that can last decades. Case ...

A team of scientists has investigated how Earth’s twin became so inhospitable, and whether the same will happen to our planet ...

Do we know what space actually smells like? And what about other planets, moons, and celestial bodies? Here's what the ...

It’s been just over 48 years since Voyager 1 was launched on September 5, 1977 from Cape Canaveral, originally to study our Solar System’s planets. Voyager 1 would explore Jupiter and ...

There are quite a few other places we might find life in the solar system, including dwarf planets like Ceres. Ceres is ...