ESA 's Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer (JUICE) is ultimately headed for the Jovian system, but on Aug. 20, it took a quick look at ...

Many of these life-forms do have biorhythms, synchronised to stimuli other than light. Naked mole rats spend their entire ...

NASA’s Europa Clipper is set launch in October to explore the habitability of an ice-covered ocean world in our solar system ...

A spacecraft en route to the frozen moons of Jupiter has taken a very close look at Earth, and found that our homeworld is, ...

NASA's Europa Clipper mission is set to explore one of the most promising spots to look for life in the solar system: Jupiter ...

A NASA telescope has revealed that the most common stars in the Milky Way may be even less habitable than previously thought.

"Our observations indicate the presence of powerful iron winds, probably fuelled by a hot spot in the atmosphere." ...

Dave Eggers is the author of “The Circle,” “What Is the What” and, most recently, “The Eyes and the Impossible,” winner of ...

New proposed space missions, led by the University of Leicester, will study stellar impacts on planets and Earth’s ...

Until scientists learn more then, here are seven of the most fascinating discoveries they’ve made about Saturn so far. The ...

NASA selected a rather interesting proposal for Phase I development as part of their NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts (NIAC) ...

Two mighty beams of energy have been detected shooting in opposite directions from a supermassive black hole inside a distant ...