From lunar water hunts to Mars sample returns, China's space program is embarking on groundbreaking missions across the solar ...

Nasa’s mission to a Galilean moon of Jupiter that’s encrusted in a thick shell of ice will let us know if its bulky ocean has ...

Space agencies have been busy with three major launch milestones occurring in the space of a week. Meanwhile, the sun is at ...

Europa is considered one of the solar system's most promising spots to search for life beyond Earth. Read more at ...

2 new papers trace the origin of most meteorites to just a handful of asteroid breakup events – and possibly even individual ...

NASA's Europa Clipper launches toward Jupiter's moon, Europa, on a mission to explore its icy surface and potential for life.

The spacecraft must navigate the vast distance between Earth and Jupiter, which is approximately 779 million kilometers at its closest approach.

Europa Clipper is the first mission designed to conduct a detailed study of Jupiter's moon Europa. It will travel about 2.9 ...

Meteorites - rocks that fall to Earth from space - have pelted our planet from its birth about 4.5 billion years ago to today ...

Although thousands of exoplanets are known, no moon has yet been found outside the solar system. This may now have changed.

An international team of astronomers has figured out that a famous brown dwarf is actually a pair of tight-knit brown dwarfs, weighing about 38 and 34 times the mass of Jupiter, that whip around each ...

Another eight per cent of the Earth meteorites can be traced to the Flora and Nysa asteroid families in the main asteroid belt, the research found. And about six per cent of the meteorites can be ...