Solar system

NASA’s partnership with private industry to accelerate the U.S.’s return to the moon is delivering lunar payloads—and mixed results

NASA is reaching across more than 15 billion miles to rescue its malfunctioning Voyager 1 probe—but this hallowed interstellar mission can’t live forever

Japan’s SLIM lander has sparked a new era of precision landings, with big implications for lunar science and exploration

Earthlings are very lucky to see the spectacle of a total solar eclipse

The next year of science for the James Webb Space Telescope has been selected. It includes remote galaxy observations and, at last, a hunt for exomoons

The subsurface ocean of Jupiter’s moon Europa may have far less oxygen—and less potential for life—than previously believed, according to data from NASA’s Juno spacecraft

Eris and Makemake—two icy worlds beyond the orbit of Pluto—have seemingly fresh methane on their surface, a sign of unexpectedly hot interiors

New observations from the James Webb Space Telescope are exposing the pathways that water takes to reach terrestrial planets

Intuitive Machines’ IM-1 mission is the first U.S. soft landing on the moon since Apollo 17. It’s also a sign of private industry’s growing role in space

Without adding an extra day to February every four years, our calendar would get increasingly out of sync with the cosmos

Fragments from Asteroid 2024 BX1 have proven to be a rare meteorite type that helps reveal the early solar system's building blocks

Despite being some six billion kilometers away, the sun from Pluto would be a dazzling sight to behold—carefully, that is