A large asteroid will make a relatively close pass by earth on April 19 ...

(NASA) NASA will hold a press conference Thursday afternoon to share new findings from ocean worlds in our solar system, the agency announced. The event, which will be held at the James Webb Auditorium at NASA's Washington D.C. headquarters, is expected , which has been studying Saturn for more than a decade, and the Hubble Space Telescope. While it's believed Earth has the most abundant water in the solar system, some ice-covered moons , CBC noted. This includes Saturn moon...

Jupiter has a second "Great Spot," and it's far colder and higher than the original. Scientists said Tuesday that the dark spot spans 15,000 miles across and 7,500 miles wide. Located in the upper atmosphere and much cooler than its steamy surroundings, it has been named the Great Cold Spot. Unlike the Great Red Spot, this newly discovered weather system is constantly changing its shape and size and is formed by the energy from Jupiter's polar auroras. (MORE: ) This...

Astronomers have discovered a second great spot on Jupiter, but unlike the red spot, this one is harder to see and constantly changing shape. ...

At a Glance NASA has announced the discovery of water under the icy surface of two moons.Both moons have underwater vents, which suggests a heat source capable of sustaining life.Life has not been discovered on either moon; additional missions will be needed to find living organisms. Plumes spewing from Saturn moon Enceladus and Jupiter moon Europa are proof of vast oceans of liquid water underneath their icy surfaces, NASA announced at a Thursday news conference. Hydrogen, a key building block...

NASA says there’s potential for alien life in the subsurface oceans on Saturn’s moon, Enceladus, and Jupiter’s moon, Europa. ...

A security camera captures a fireball streaking across the sky in Cornelius, North Carolina. ...

NASA is stepping up its ability to show us Earth at night, producing a new, more detailed map of lights across the globe that show human activity ...

The image above is an artist's rendition of an asteroid approaching Earth. (Getty Images) On Wednesday, an asteroid almost a mile wide will sail past Earth, coming closer than it ever has within the last 400 years. According to NASA, the , or roughly 683,508 miles, of Earth. It will be one of the strongest asteroid radar targets of this year. The flyby will be the closest of an asteroid of this size since a September 2004 encounter with an...

The Cassini spacecraft is running low on fuel, so scientists plan to send it plunging into Saturn, the planet it’s been studying for the past 20 years, in dramatic fashion. ...

The amount of space junk orbiting the Earth is growing and could spell disaster for spacecraft. ...

Scientists’ hopes of finding alien life have been renewed after a newly discovered super-Earth was spotted revolving around a nearby red dwarf. “,” Jason Dittmann, lead author on the study on the discovery, said in a release from the European Southern Observatory (ESO). “We could hardly hope for a better target to perform one of the biggest quests in science — searching for evidence of life beyond Earth.” According to the study, and may have likely maintained its atmosphere despite...