Mars's moon Phobos is so strange that no one knows how it formed. But a forthcoming mission could solve this mystery - and a ...

NASA’s Juno spacecraft has uncovered an immense volcanic hot spot on Jupiter’s moon Io, surpassing any previously recorded ...

NASA has plans to launch the first deep space station for humans to live long-term. Is it a necessary step to Mars?

In a celestial event known as a great alignment the five planets will be discernible with the naked eye, but to see Neptune ...

If the scientists could very precisely measure the proportions of lutetium and halfnium in moon rocks compared to other ...

While the composition of gas and dust in a molecular cloud is fairly uniform, everything changes once a star begins to form.

"The climate of this planet is extreme and nothing like that of Earth. The planet's dayside is so hot that elements typically thought of as 'metal' are vaporized into the atmosphere." ...

The moon may still be geologically active, judging from the way the lunar far side is wrinkling as the moon contracts. At ...

More than a decade of data about the particles zipping around our sun can solve mysteries from the behaviour of individual ...