An atomic clock that could be a big help for deep-space missions is hitching a ride aboard SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy rocket tonight. It’s ...

NASA’s Mars 2020 rover doesn’t look like a bunch of cold steel and wires anymore. Last week, JPL engineers were busy in the ...

A daytime high of 15 degrees Fahrenheit doesn’t sound too brutal for a winter day on Mars’ desolate surface. But it’s a different ...

Three months into its observations and TESS was already finding confirmed exoplanets. Another 280+ potential exoplanets are getting follow-up observations from telescopes back ...

While primarily a Jupiter mission, NASA’s Juno spacecraft takes any opportunity it gets to look at the gas giant’s moons. In late December, ...

NASA’s New Horizons probe is closing in fast on its second target, a Kuiper Belt Object (KBO) nicknamed Ultima Thule. And NASA TV ...

Astronauts Frank Borman, James Lovell, and William Anders spent 20 hours circling the Moon ten times. And those 20 hours can be summed ...

New research says Saturn’s rings are a cosmological ‘blink and you’ll miss it’ moment. Scientists first inkling that Saturn’s rings aren’t a permanent ...

For CubeSats, hitching a ride to space depends on if there’s enough space on another mission to squeeze aboard. That changed yesterday. 10 ...

NASA’s InSight lander is looking slick. The latest robot to call Mars home used a camera attached to its robotic arm to get ...

It took a little over two years and more than two billion kilometers of cruising, but NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft made it. The asteroid ...

We will never hear from NASA’s Kepler space telescope again. On October 30, the space agency announced the telescope’s mission was coming to ...