Europe's Hera asteroid probe will use the Red Planet for a gravity assist on its way to scope out the space rock crash site ...

The movements of the planets in the Solar System are pretty difficult to get your head around, even before we get started on ...

Samples collected from the near-Earth asteroid Ryugu have revealed clues about a primordial magnetic field that helped ...

ITHACA, N.Y. - By probing chemical processes observed in the Earth's hot mantle, Cornell scientists have started developing a library of basalt-based spectral signatures that not only will help reveal ...

Using the James Webb Space Telescope, an international cooperation of NASA and the European and Canadian space agencies, a ...

Potentially dangerous comets could be spotted many years in advance by following the meteoroid trails they leave near Earth, ...

In the time Pluto was found, classified as a planet and reclassified as a dwarf planet, it has not completed one orbit. One ...

Much of the knowledge about Uranus was gleaned when NASA's robotic spacecraft Voyager 2 conducted a five-day flyby in 1986 ...

NASA's Juno spacecraft, on its 66th flyby of Jupiter, has captured breathtaking images of the planet's turbulent storms and ...

Much of the knowledge about Uranus was gleaned when NASA’s robotic spacecraft Voyager 2 conducted a five-day flyby in 1986.

Uranus, blue-green in color due to the methane contained in an atmosphere comprised mostly of hydrogen and helium ...

This has informed how we think about Uranus ever since, making the planet's history a mystery scientists have been working to solve. There's just one problem, says space plasma physicist Jamie ...