For decades, Europa has been the optimistic counterpoint to a lonely solar system, a small icy world that seemed to tick ...

First light for the innovative new instrument is anticipated in 2028. Spectre — once operational — will play a key role in ...

A new NASA spacecraft called Pandora is awaiting launch ahead of its journey to study the atmospheres of exoplanets, or ...

Mars has an active, electrically charged surface where dust storms and spinning dust devils regularly move and reshape the ...

Pandora, the latest in a long portfolio of University of Arizona's space science missions, has cleared its last major ...

A Congressional bill restores funding for most NASA space science missions, but there is no money for returning samples ...

New calculations reported by Live Science indicate Jupiter was once much larger and is still contracting as it cools, offering constraints on early solar system conditions.

The massive sunspot that sparked an "extreme" geomagnetic storm in May 2024 unleashed hundreds of other dangerous solar ...

Mars, often depicted as a barren red planet, is far from lifeless. With its thin atmosphere and dusty surface, it is an ...

The world’s oceans are becoming dangerously acidic. A controversial proposal would raise the pH — by mixing chemicals into ...

In our first segment, SpaceNews correspondent Debra Werner sits down with Jason Kim, CEO of Firefly Aerospace, to discuss the ...

Europa’s buried ocean has made it one of the most exciting places to search for life beyond Earth. However, new calculations suggest its seafloor may be calm, cold, and largely inactive, with little ...