"They can penetrate metal on satellites, hit circuit boards, and can be carcinogenic if they hit a person in space." ...

Thought up back in 1978 by NASA scientists Donald Kessler and Burton Cour-Palais, the Kessler syndrome says that humanity is ...

There aren't a whole lot of places in our solar system we believe life could survive, but a couple of the ones high on the ...

Combining the satellite data with evidence of magnetic field line movements on Earth, European geoscientists mapped the ...

Today, scientists are keeping a close eye on Earth’s magnetic field. One area of particular interest is the South Atlantic ...

The Falcon 9 rocket is set to take off from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station at 7:31 p.m., with ...

Catch some shooting stars, get in a glimpse of the fading Comet Tsuchinshan-ATLAS, and see Venus mingle with Antares in the ...

Nasa’s mission to a Galilean moon of Jupiter that’s encrusted in a thick shell of ice will let us know if its bulky ocean has ...

Although thousands of exoplanets are known, no moon has yet been found outside the solar system. This may now have changed.

Despite not heading directly to Jupiter, NASA's Europa Clipper mission is embarking on a six-year odyssey to explore the icy moon Europa. This extended travel time is primarily due to the spacecraft's ...

The Europa Clipper mission will only be able to do a low fly-by of Europa for a couple of hours every three weeks, because longer immersion in Jupiter’s huge radiation zone would fry its electronics.

An observation tower overlooks a Panama rainforest where scientists from ORNL and other partners are working on the DOE Next ...