Europa Clipper will peer beneath the moon’s icy crust where an ocean is thought to be sloshing fairly close to the surface.

It won't land, but the robotic spacecraft will fly as close as 16 miles to the moon's frozen surface to probe oceans of ...

New research done at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory reveals potential signs of a rocky, volcanic moon orbiting an exoplanet ...

The spacecraft succeeded where many had failed, peering Venus’ suffocating clouds to showing us the planet’s face for the ...

"The most exciting prospect at the (Uranian) moons is that they could still host subsurface oceans at present.” ...

This artist's concept depicts a potential volcanic moon between the exoplanet WASP-49 b, left, and its parent star. New ...

Researchers at Cornell University have leveraged the intense volcanic activity on Jupiter's moon Io to advance our ...

NASA plans to send humans on a scientific round trip to Mars potentially as early as 2035. The trip will take about six to ...

Satellite history is littered with "firsts." Many early space launches constituted key moments in the Cold War space race and ...

The islands were the only place in the United States where you could get at least a partial view of the annular solar eclipse ...

And it very nearly did not happen. That's the story I want to tell here.

All five hour-long episodes of "Solar System" are available to stream now via BBC iPlayer in the UK (valid TV Licence ...