The comet comes from an enigmatic and colossal cloud of planetesimals that surrounds our solar system.
It appears as though the first astronauts to set foot on the Moon in over 50 years will be doing so in style.
The spacecraft will be trying to answer some of the most critical questions about Europa and its subsurface ocean.
NASA recently featured this photograph, which shows a strange face-like formation, on its website.
A new study has highlighted the potential for finding habitable extrasolar worlds around F-type stars.
The faster you can get a crew to Mars, the better - but conventional propulsion systems may not be up to the task.
After covering 20 miles across the Martian surface, it is perhaps no surprise that the rover has taken a few dints.
In an unexpected discovery, it turns out that lockdown actually had a measurable impact on the lunar surface.
The age of huge, expensive satellites is giving way to the age of small, cheap satellites that can be launched en masse.
It is perhaps ironic that Earth's deadliest weapons of mass destruction could potentially save us all from catastrophe.
Creating a colony on Mars would not only be technologically challenging, but also biologically taxing as well.
This peculiar striped rock is quite unlike anything that scientists have ever seen before on the Red Planet.
The Moon will be joined by a second natural satellite for a short time beginning this Sunday.
Astronomers are getting better and better at detecting asteroids and this could one day save us all.
The SpaceX CEO has stated on social media that manned missions to Mars will start very soon indeed.
The iconic action star is planning to record a movie in space while doing all the stunts himself.
This fascinating and profound audio piece is literally a musical manifestation of astronomical data.
The stricken capsule had been making some peculiar noises while docked at the International Space Station.
Without them, we might need to look elsewhere to explain the universe's peculiarities.
India's Chandrayaan-3 mission has found evidence to support the idea that the lunar surface was once entirely molten.