NASA expands the use of its Astrobee robots on the International Space Station to test new technologies and automate tasks in ...

MIT astronauts aboard the International Space Station—and the MIT researchers who have sent up experiments—have advanced our ...

Mars’ north polar vortex locks its atmosphere in extreme cold and darkness, freezing out water vapor and triggering a ...

On windswept dunes inside Martian craters, such as Matara and Russell, the Red Planet wears a curious pattern that has long ...

NASA's Voyager 2 spacecraft captured dark streaks produced by geysers visible on the icy surface of Triton's south polar ...

NASA measures radiation over Greenland to improve aviation safety and validate models that predict cosmic doses polar flight ...

As scientists get closer to putting humans on Mars, the need to understand why clocks tick faster on the red planet is more ...

Dust devils form when the planet’s surface heats up, pushing hot air close to the ground rapidly up through cooler air above.

NASA is considering approving by next April up to two planetary science missions from four proposals under review, including one to Venus that scientists involved in the project said could help ...

NASA confirmed that nuclear-micropowered probes (NMPs) using tritium betavoltaic power technology is possible. A new study ...

NASA has thrown a lifeline to scientists working on a mission to visit an asteroid that will make an unusually close flyby of ...

Space weather is real, and it has more of an impact on life on Earth than you may think. A new multi-pronged mission intends to learn more about it.