A planet swings in front of its star, dimming the starlight we see. Events like these, called transits, provide us with ...

NASA convinced an American author we’ll find life on another planet — in next 25 years - Pulitzer Prize finalist Dave Eggers ...

NASA has announced that a 510-foot asteroid, roughly the size of a building, will make close passes by Earth. Despite its ...

Peanuts! Get your peanuts here! The solar system has been passing out peanuts lately in the form of two different oddly shaped asteroids that recently passed by Earth, and both look like over-sized ...

The asteroid, named 2024 PT5, will do a 56-day horseshoe-shaped fly-by near Earth before it continues on it journey.

Weeks before Europa Clipper was to be shipped for launch, scientists discovered a potentially fatal flaw that might endanger ...

NASA and Jet Propulsion Laboratory officials gave a sneak peek into the upcoming Europa Clipper mission, the first NASA ...

At PST Art, a huge Southern California event where art and science collide, NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory is inviting ...

NASA’s Europa Clipper is set launch in October to explore the habitability of an ice-covered ocean world in our solar system ...

This composite of planets in our solar system was taken by various NASA spacecraft. Included in the image are (from top to bottom) Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune. Credit: NASA/JPL.

Protoplanetary disk. Figure from a computer simulation visualizing the formation of planets ( Photo: NASA/JPL-Caltech.August ...