Even at a glance, the planets in our solar system are wildly diverse. Huge and small, airless and densely packed with ...

Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics scientists have been able to disentangle the X-ray glow originating in our ...

NASA has shut down a science instrument on Voyager 1 to extend the aging space probe's life as it ventures nearly 16 billion ...

NASA has shut down a science instrument on the iconic Voyager 1 probe, the first spacecraft to reach interstellar space.

The LHS 1903 system defies expectations with a rocky outer planet, prompting new ideas about how planets form and evolve.

16. Despite Mercury's extreme temperatures (like, up to 800 degrees Fahrenheit), it's believed to have ice at its north and ...

We have no idea what kind of life may exist on other planets, so it’s hard to know what to look for. Proxima Kósmos imagines ...

Deep inside planets like Uranus and Neptune, scientists may have uncovered a bizarre new state of matter where atoms behave ...

As science fiction enthusiast and a scientist, I am excited to see what it will be like. I’m sure I’m not alone, as a number ...

The venerable Voyager 1 spacecraft is one step closer to the end of its scientific road. NASA turned off one of its three ...

On April 17, engineers at Nasa Jet Propulsion Laboratory made a difficult but necessary decision: they shut down one of Voyager 1's long-running science instruments.

After nearly 50 years in space, the two Voyager spacecraft are very low on nuclear power. Voyager 1 just shut off another ...