Life in our solar system could exist, even on the icy recesses of Jupiter and Saturn's moons ... said Alexander Pavlov of NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt. More on Maryland ...

To get somewhere in outer space, you can’t exactly drive in a straight line. Orbits are tricky things, and sending a probe to ...

Will the Lower Hudson Valley be able to see these celestial spectacles Feb. 1 and 3? It depends on the weather.

Scientists studying Saturn's icy moon, Enceladus, have discovered that its ocean forms layers that slow the upward movement ...

Scientists suggested the enormous object disrupted the orbits of Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune, which would explain the peculiarities of these four planets' paths. Prevailing solar ...

A new study focusing on Enceladus, a moon of Saturn, shows that the physics of alien oceans could prevent evidence of deep-sea life from reaching places where we can detect it.

Why it's so special: This picture was taken by the European Space Agency's Huygens probe ... the probe was approximately 3 miles (5 km) above Saturn's largest moon. The probe's descent from ...

NASA’s Voyager mission completed humankind’s first close-up exploration of the four giant outer planets of our solar system.