Like a celestial parade across the cosmos, five bright planets are lighting up the night sky and visible with the naked eye ...

A startling silhouette of Saturn is created in this Cassini spacecraft portrait. A kingly crescent Saturn rests on the right of this Cassini spacecraft portrait while the moon Mimas appears above the ...

I don’t know if our life has a purpose and I don’t see that it matters. What does matter is that we’re a part.” While most of us go about our days, immersed in the minutia our lives, we remain very ...

In it, Saturn hangs over windswept snow and brown ... painting promised could not be more different. Released from NASA’s Cassini spacecraft, the Huygens probe descended by parachute for some ...

Scientists studying Saturn's icy moon, Enceladus, have discovered that its ocean forms layers that slow the upward movement ...

The space agency's planetary science analysis groups must pause while NASA checks if they comply with Trump's orders.

A NASA spacecraft has returned asteroid samples that hold not only the pristine building blocks for life but also the salty ...

All month, four planets — Venus, Saturn, Jupiter and Mars — will appear to line up and be bright enough to see with the naked eye in the first few hours after dark, according to NASA.

NASA scientists found amino acids, key minerals, and nucleobases for DNA in samples from the OSIRIS-REx asteroid mission.

Saturn's rings consist of ice, dust, and rocks, with particles varying in size from small grains to large boulders. Saturn's rings are divided into several main groups, each named in alphabetical ...

All month, four planets — Venus, Saturn, Jupiter and Mars — will appear to line up and be bright enough to see with the naked eye in the first few hours after dark, according to NASA.