The first satellite in space made mostly of wood arrived at the International Space Station on Tuesday along with other ...

Miranda is the smallest and innermost of Uranus's five round satellites and orbits the planet around once every 1.4 Earth ...

"To find evidence of an ocean inside a small object like Miranda is incredibly surprising," said Tom Nordheim, a planetary ...

SEE ALSO: NASA scientist viewed first Voyager images. What he saw gave him ... McClanahan said. The NASA satellite's Lunar Exploration Neutron Detector, or LEND, located the ice by indicating ...

Launched in 1977, Voyager 1 and Voyager ... now in interstellar space. NASA's research has led to advancements that benefit life on Earth, including improved satellite technology, medical imaging ...

The icy moon Miranda is the latest satellite in our solar system to spark hope in the search for life beyond Earth.

New research suggests a moon orbiting the sophomoric-sounding planet might contain enough natural resources to support alien ...

Six decades after the launch of the first nuclear-powered space mission, NASA is embarking on a bold future of human exploration and scientific discovery.

How many moons does Jupiter have? Scientists have discovered dozens of them, but the answer may be more complicated than it ...

Nasa’s Europa Clipper has embarked on a long voyage to Jupiter, where it will investigate Europa, a moon with an enormous subsurface ocean that may have conditions to support life. According to ...

If our solar system is any guide, such small, icy satellites greatly outnumber ... “It just wasn’t in our worldview.” But in 1979 NASA’s twin Voyager spacecraft swept by Jupiter and ...