The farthest spacecraft in the universe went momentarily rogue, but scientists breathed a sigh of relief when it reconnected ...

Since the formation of Earth approximately 4.5 billion years ago, the convection and release of hot magma in its mantle layer ...

A 6-mile-think shell of methane ice on Saturn's moon Titan could assist in the hunt for life signs arising from this moon's ...

Rare planetary alignments, known as major conjunctions, have coincided with significant events in human history. The recent ...

One of the best-timed shots in TV history is an old clip by BBC's science presenter James Burke which has recently become ...

After 47 years and 15 billion miles, the Plasma Science Experiment aboard NASA’s Voyager 2 spacecraft has been turned off.

NASA has released a new edition of Issue 4 of the Astrobiology Graphic History series. The issue now includes NASA's Europa ...

A 6-mile-think shell of methane ice on Saturn's moon Titan could assist in ... from Titan's subsurface ocean and carried to its outer icy shell, just awaiting discovery.

Voyager 1 switched to a very old backup radio transmitter, not used since 1981, restoring NASA’s contact amid communication ...

NASA-supported scientists have developed a method to compute how tides affect the interiors of planets and moons, which will ...

There, Dr. Brand recruits Coop to pilot a spaceship in pursuit of another habitable planet, which involves getting him and ...

The Hubble Space Telescope time-lapse captured footage of Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune. Credit: SCIENCE: NASA, ESA, Amy Simon (NASA-GSFC), Michael H. Wong (UC Berkeley) / VISUALIZATION: Joseph ...