This artist’s concept shows NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft descending towards asteroid Bennu to collect a sample of the ...

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Since completing its primary science objectives in orbit of Jupiter, Juno has been conducting flybys of the Jovian moons Io, Europa, Ganymede, and Callisto. The spacecraft completed two very close ...

NASA’s Juno mission found Io’s biggest volcanic eruption ever. The explosion was stronger than all Earth’s power plants combined.

The building blocks of life could have been delivered to Ceres by one or more space rocks from the outer asteroid belt.

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Samples returned from an asteroid contain a surprising abundance of the basic ingredients of life. They were discovered to be ...

Houston-based Intuitive Machines is set to make history by launching a mission to establish the first cell phone service on the moon using Nokia's 4G/LTE technology.

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NASA JPL is diving into an eventful 2025 with ambitious space missions despite challenges like the Eaton Fire. Exciting ...

NASA OSIRIS-REx asteroid sample return team has revealed exciting evidence of the precursors of life in the pieces of space rock Bennu.

Jupiter’s moon Io is the most volcanically active world in the Solar System. The gravitational tug-of-war between Jupiter and ...