Freezing cold, dark and with an atmosphere that smells like farts and rotten eggs? Uranus doesn’t sound like somewhere you’d want to call home. But let’s say you did want to move to Uranus. What kind ...

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"It’s basically a dead star," NASA astrophysicist Padi Boyd told ABC News. "It’s not burning anything." The dead star has a comparable mass to Earth's sun, according to NASA. By contrast ...

NASA on Monday launched a spacecraft toward Europa as part of a six-year mission to study one of Jupiter’s moons, which the space agency believes could be one of the “most promising places ...

NASA's Europa Clipper has embarked on its long voyage to Jupiter, where it will investigate Europa, a moon with an enormous subsurface ocean that may have conditions to support life. The largest ...

An icon in the shape of a lightning bolt. Impact Link NASA is serious about searching for alien life, even within our own solar system. On Monday, the agency launched a spacecraft aboard a SpaceX ...

Here’s how it works. NASA's flagship Europa Clipper spacecraft will explore Jupiter's icy moon Europa on a mission to understand how habitable Jovian satellite, with its vast salty ocean wrapped ...

NASA's CAPSTONE mini-spacecraft recently marked its 100th trip around the moon in near-rectilinear halo orbit (NRHO). The agency has just granted CAPSTONE a mission extension after operating in ...

The solar-powered spacecraft Europa Clipper ascended above clear skies through Earth’s atmosphere on a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. It is expected to ...