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Europa Clipper will explore Jupiter's icy moon in-depth during multiple flybys, studying whether Europa could harbor conditions suitable for life.

The bit carousel, which lies at the heart of the rover's Sample Caching System, is now aboard NASA's newest rover.

NASA has selected two proposals for concept studies that could help us better understand the fundamental nature of space and how it changes in response to planetary atmospheres, radiation from the Sun, and interstellar particles.

After months grappling with the rugged reality of asteroid Bennu’s surface, the team leading NASA’s first asteroid sample return mission has selected four potential sites.

This new Hubble Space Telescope view of Jupiter, taken on June 27, 2019, reveals the giant planet's trademark Great Red Spot.

Recently, the Magnetospheric Multiscale mission made the first high-resolution measurements of an interplanetary shock.

Since NASA's Parker Solar Probe launched on Aug. 12, 2018, Earth has made a single trip around the Sun — while Parker is into its third orbit around our star.

The first briefcase-size CubeSats to journey to another planet have been honored for their role in NASA InSight's successful Mars landing.

CubeSats can be part of a historic mission—Artemis 2—when NASA’s Space Launch System (SLS) rocket will send astronauts on their first flight aboard the Orion spacecraft.

NASA's Curiosity rover is discovering odd rocks halfway into a region called the "clay-bearing unit."

Earth’s Moon and Mercury, the closest planet to the Sun, may contain significantly more water ice than previously thought.

Earlier this year, Parker Solar Probe downlinked all of the planned science data from its first two passes by the Sun.