The European Space Agency announced Thursday the Gaia spacecraft was turned off after a decade of data gathering.

Martian lake beds and deltas reveal the Red Planet’s watery past. But many puzzles remain, scientist Bruce Jakosky says.

Additionally, China is also investing in a human lunar program, seeking to land its own astronauts on the surface of the Moon ...

A French team of scientists from the Laboratory for Atmospheres and Space Observations discovered the largest organic ...

Lots of us look up at the night sky with wonderment, asking how humans are able to explore the universe. Tracy Drain, a ...

Toxic dust on Mars would make a future mission to the red planet extremely hazardous for astronauts and require significant ...

The NASA rover "Curiosity" discovered what scientists say is the largest ever seen organic molecules on Mars, raising ...

World-renowned Greek astrophysicist Stamatios Krimigis says that a human settlement on Mars is a distant dream.

From its perch in the foothills of the 3.4-mile-high mountain, you can see over an expanse of plains, called Aeolis Palus, ...

The spacecraft, about the size of a small car, conducted a series of experiments. It drilled three feet into the lunar soil, took X-ray images of the magnetic bubble that surrounds and protects Earth ...

NASA astronauts Nick Hague, Suni Williams, and Butch Wilmore, and Roscosmos cosmonaut Aleksandr Gorbunov, returned to Earth at 5:57 p.m. EDT. Teams aboard SpaceX recovery vessels retrieved the ...

Now that Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams are home, ending a 9-month spaceflight, questions remain about the troubled ...