Rosetta

The story of oceans is the story of life. Life as we know it requires three ingredients: energy, organic molecules, and liquid water.

Wherever astronomers look, they see life's raw materials—and hints at answers to one of the great mysteries of science.

Dinkinesh, the asteroid visited by NSA's Lucy mission in 2023, has a small moon that is made from two objects touching each other.

Astronauts report surprising scents like burnt steak and gunpowder during spacewalks, revealing space odors' intriguing origins.

It may be a minor shower, but conditions for the Draconid meteor shower are looking good: here's how to spot a shooting star this weekend.

Europe's workhorse Ariane 5 rocket will launch for the final time on Wednesday (July 5), and you can watch the historic liftoff live.

The 1.2-m diameter main mirror of ESA's Euclid mission to unveil the dark universe, seen during assembly, integration and testing. Using this mirror, the spacecraft will map the 3D distribution of billions of galaxies up to 10 billion light years away—looking beyond the Milky Way galaxy to image around a third of the observable universe. By revealing the universe's large-scale structure, and its pattern of…

The first-time detection of Gravitational Waves (GW) by researchers at the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory (LIGO) in 2015 triggered a revolution in astronomy. This phenomenon consists of ripples in spacetime caused by the merger of massive objects and was predicted a century prior by Einstein's Theory of General Relativity. In the coming years, this burgeoning field will advance considerably…

Direct detection of gas phase water from the disk of V883 Ori indicates that disks directly inherit water from the star-forming cloud that becomes incorporated into large icy bodies without notable chemical alteration.

Spacecraft and Mars rovers don't live forever. Some run out of power, others succumb to the elements. These are the last views they saw of the cosmos.

Dimethyl sulfide is in the news after NASA's James Webb Space Telescope may have detected relatively high levels of it in the atmosphere of an exoplanet called K2-18 b

Astronomers have retracted the discovery of a new asteroid after realizing the object was the remains of Elon Musk's Tesla Roadster and its driver "Starman," which were launched into space in 2018.

Wherever astronomers look, they see life's raw materials.

Astrobotic's Peregrine moon lander launched today (Jan. 8) with five NASA science payloads aboard. Here's what the experiments are designed to do.

Carrying NASA scientific instruments as part of its Commercial Lunar Payload Services initiative, Astrobotic's Peregrine lander launched on United Launch

The Rosetta orbiter spectrometer for ion and neutral analysis (ROSINA) instrument orbited comet 67P to revolutionize our understanding of cometary material composition. A key finding of the satellite was to explore the composition of comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko. In a new report published in Science Advances, Ahmed Mahjoub and a team of planetary scientists in the Jet Propulsion Lab at CalTech, the Space Science…

The first-time detection of gravitational waves (GW) by researchers at the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory (LIGO) in 2015 triggered a revolution in astronomy.

A reanalysis of the data from the "rubber-ducky" comet 67P, collected nearly a decade ago, suggests comets may have deposited a lot more water on Earth than scientists previously thought.

Astronomers have discovered that Saturn has thrown a newly found comet on its way out of the solar system. Comet A117uUD is expected to go interstellar at...

A new study presents measurements of Io's volcanic gasses that indicate Jupiter's moons Io, Europa, and Ganymede have been locked into a specific orbital resonance for nearly their entire existence.