Rahul Rao

How Pluto's Sputnik Planitia formed remains unknown, but researchers have imagined a body about the size of Switzerland crashing into Pluto at a shallow angle.

NASA's Curiosity rover is now exploring a possible ancient river on Mars named Gediz Vallis.

NASA's Parker Solar Probe looked into a coronal mass ejection coming from the sun for the first time, detecting some turbulence that has intrigued scientists.

Scientists have invented a program that allows spacecraft to dock autonomously. It's still in testing phases, but the next step may be to try it out in orbit.

NASA wants Artemis moon astronauts to have the perfect moon camera — Nikon is on the case.

Newly released photos by Europe's Mars Express orbiter shows the Red Planet's exotic north polar region, where sand dunes meet high, icy cliffs.

Scientists studied the Radcliffe Wave, a giant star-studded structure not far from our sun, to see that it is indeed "waving."

Scientists with the JET facility have broken a record for the most amount of raw energy created via nuclear fusion. There's still work to be done, though.

During its second close rendezvous with Jupiter's volcanic moon, NASA's Juno spacecraft collected some amazing images of the scene.

As Artemis 3 nears its 2026 launch date, geologists worry about whether moonquakes and lunar landslides will impact landing.

Scientists have found fingerprints of water in ancient meteorites reminiscent of the planetesimals that formed Earth.

The OSIRIS-REx sampling mission, a planetary defense prototype named DART and a spacecraft's ambitious journey to a metal world are just some of the highlights

Two upcoming solar missions will be armed with "photon sieves." Here's what that means.

After a NASA mission redirected an asteroid moonlet with a planned crash in 2022, a new model is building on that effort to show how a nuclear weapon could smash a space rock to pieces.

After more than a decade of hunting for asteroids and comets, the days of NASA's NEOWISE mission are officially numbered, thanks to our increasingly active sun.

Mirroring the Earth's Anthropocene, which describes the age in which humans altered our planet, scientists argue moon advancements place us in a Lunar Anthropocene.

Scientists believe possible amino acids in Enceladus' subsurface ocean can indeed be detected by spacecraft.

Radio signals in Earth's orbit can create noise in astronomy data. Scientists are planning a workaround that'll be available to researchers for free.

The Psyche spacecraft just fired a laser on its way to a metal asteroiod, in a test that could help speed up science transmissions across the solar system.

Sicily's Mount Etna volcano erupted on Nov. 12, and ESA satellites caught the event in infrared.

The European Space Agency is slated to launch a satellite in 2030 that's meant to probe the nature of dark matter.

NASA wants to figure out how future moon-dwellers can produce, capture and store breathable oxygen from lunar soil.

India's newly launched Aditya-L1 sun-studying mission has already captured its first glimpse of a solar flare in high-energy X-rays.

The Hubble Space Telescope recently snapped an ultraviolet image of the gas giant Jupiter, offering a stunning false-color look at the planet's turbulent atmosphere.

Photos taken from lunar orbit show India's Chandrayaan-3 moon landing produced "ejecta halo," a huge ring-shaped plume of moon dust that the Vikram lander's thrusters left in the lunar soil.