Despite their liquid water and potential for habitability, these moons are very different environments from Earth. On Earth, ...

These images mark an early milestone in the mission, confirming that OSIRIS-APEX is healthy and on course for its 2029 ...

The Moon is getting 1½ inches (3.8 centimeters) farther away from the Earth every year. Scientists measure the distance to ...

Emily Kwong and Regina Barber of NPR's Short Wave podcast talk about the evolutionary history of kissing, how moss spores fare in space, and new clues about the collision that created the moon.

If we find technological satellites of Jupiter that we did not send, it would imply that Jupiter is of interest to an ...

A Space Odyssey and Gattaca are among the best examples of 20th-century hard sci-fi, grounding their plots in logic and plausibility.

Io, moon of Jespiter Jupiter, is famously volcanically active. It has more than 400 active volcanoes, over an area the size of Asia. Some of the volcanic mountains are taller than Mount Everest. The ...

Researchers have found Saturn’s moon Enceladus has heat circulating beneath its icy crust, meaning the chemistry of biology ...

Miranda, a small moon of Uranus, hides a feature so extreme that it defies most Earth-bound comparisons. Verona Rupes, a ...

Jupiter’s immense size and gravity would make humans 11 times heavier, tear apart our Moon into rings and pull asteroids toward Earth in catastrophic waves. Fetterman on new Epstein emails mentioning ...

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