I n 2016, NASA launched the Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, and Security-Regolith Explorer (OSIRIS-REx) probe, which famously touched down on asteroid Bennu in 2020, before ...

Far from the Sun’s heat, orbiting the outer planets of the solar system, are moons with oceans of liquid water beneath their frozen surfaces. Keith Cooper finds out how planetary scientists are ...

NASA Solar System ambassador Charles Fulco, of Rye Brook, teaches elementary school students about the science behind space ...

Viewed from orbit, Jackass Flats — situated in southern Nevada about 65 miles northwest of Las Vegas — could easily be confused for Mars. The alluvial basin is full of tan and gray regolith, hued ...

PUNCH’s observations of comet 3I/ATLAS from Sept. 28 to Oct. 10, 2025, when the comet was between 231 million to 235 million miles from Earth. Each frame is a daily stacked image, made up of multiple ...

When NASA’s Dawn spacecraft visited Ceres, it revealed a world far more complex than anyone expected. Beneath its surface lie salty deposits, possible reservoirs of liquid water, and chemistry that ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Jupiter's moon Europa has long been shortlisted among scientists as one of our solar system's most promising locations to search ...

By using the Deep Sky Network (DSN) tracking system, NASA was able to measure the Doppler shift of the radio signals from Cassini as it orbited Saturn and flew past Titan. These shifts allowed ...