There's a broad consensus in the scientific community that a follow-up mission to Pluto should be an orbiter, and not a ...

Europa Clipper launched today (Oct. 14) atop a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket from Florida, kicking off a highly anticipated astrobiology mission to the Jupiter ocean moon Europa.

NASA's Europa Clipper spacecraft captured a thermal image of Mars during a gravity-assist flyby, testing instruments ahead of its mission to explore Jupiter’s ocean moon Europa.

NASA engineers have spent the past decade developing a rugged, partially autonomous lander designed to explore Europa, one of Jupiter’s most intriguing moons. The space agency got cold feet over the ...

The proposed small probe, known as the Gravity Imaging Radio Observer (GIRO), would use gravity fields to precisely map the interiors and compositions of the outer planets and other celestial bodies.

Dozens of NASA's missions to explore the cosmos could be in jeopardy under a budget proposal from the Trump administration.

NASA's Juno spacecraft hurtled closer toward Jupiter on Friday headed for a July 4 leap into polar orbit around the solar system's largest planet to analyze how it formed and helped set the stage ...

Dozens of NASA's spaceflight missions that launched from Florida could be in jeopardy under a budget proposal from the Trump administration.

NASA's Parker Solar Probe has directly observed a powerful magnetic explosion in the sun's corona that could help us predict geomagnetic storms on Earth.

Senate Republicans are working on a plan that would shield some NASA programs from large cuts proposed by the White House. Officials have discussed directing $10 billion toward programs facing ...

On a mission to discover if one of Jupiter's 4 moons, Europa, supports life, NASA's robotic spacecraft, Clipper, captured a close-range image of Mars.