In the United States, funding for planetary defense has long had strong bipartisan support both inside and outside of ...

Nuclear propulsion could be the future of space travel and NASA and General Atomics just brought us one step closer.

Skywatchers can spot Venus, Saturn, Jupiter and Mars in the night sky with the naked eye, but two other planets might need a ...

The signs of wave ripples in the sandy shores of ancient lake beds, created as wind pushed water back and forth have been found on Mars providing evidence that there were open bodies of water, not ...

Venus, Saturn, Jupiter and Mars will appear to line up and be bright enough to see without a telescope or binoculars — and ...

The data used to create the image is from a Hubble Space Telescope project to capture and map Jupiter's superstorm system.

Sky watchers are in for a treat this month as the stars align to give amateurs a shot to see six planets at once.

For much of January and February, you have the chance to see six planets in our solar system after dark, although two — Uranus and Neptune — will be hard to see without a telescope or high-powered ...

Ancient ripples suggest a warmer, wetter past for the Red Planet that supported open water on its surface.

Next time you're driving around on Mars and need to get your tire replaced, chances are good it'll look something like a revolutionary new version made by NASA and Goodyear. The mesh cage design can ...

The next logical progression to space exploration would be sending people to Mars, but there are challenges to this, such as ...

New research reveals ancient ripples on Mars, providing compelling evidence of long-lost lakes that once existed 3.7 billion ...