Scientists say there's a place in our solar system outside of Earth that has the chemical make-up to potentially support life. Researchers found that Saturn's sixth largest moon -- Enceladus -- has an ocean that contains phosphorus, which is found in human teeth, bones and DNA. CBS News space consu...

We don’t yet know what the James Webb Space Telescope will uncover. Will we get answers? Will we have more questions? One thing’s certain: The story of us is a never-ending quest for knowledge.

Planetary Resources' mission is mine near-Earth asteroids for raw materials, ranging from water to precious metals. Through the development of cost-effective exploration technologies, the company is poised to initiate prospecting missions targeting resource-rich asteroids that are easily accessible....

UNC Chanel Hill laboratory discusses tardigrades on the National Geographic channel, with a film of tun formation by Daiki Horikawa.

Gravitational Waves Detected, Confirming Einstein's Theory: A team of scientists announced on Thursday, February 11, 2015 that they had heard and recorded the sound of two black holes colliding a billion light-years away, a fleeting chirp that fulfilled the last prediction of Einstein's general theo...

For a 30 hour spell (Feb 7-8, 2012) the Solar Dynamics Observatory captured plasma caught in a magnetic dance across the Sun's surface. The results closely resemble extreme tornadic activity on Earth.

NASA’s Perseverance Rover has reached the Red Planet and will go through the final phase known as Entry, Descent and Landing. Perseverance was launched on July 30, 2020, from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, aboard an ULA’s Atlas V-541 rocket, and will land on Mars at Jezero Crater after travelli

Launched nearly 28 years ago, the Hubble Space Telescope has changed our understanding of the cosmos, allowing us to calculate the age of the universe and the rate at which it is expanding. Hubble has allow us to peer back to almost the origins of the universe, to locations more than 13.4 billion li...

The Parker solar probe spacecraft has been launched successfully by Nasa. It was sent off into space on board the Delta-IV Heavy Rocket from Cape Canaveral in Florida. The satellite is designed to fly within six million kilometres of the Sun – closer than ever before.

All landings on Mars are difficult, but NASA's Perseverance rover is attempting to touch down in the most challenging terrain on Mars ever targeted.