MAVEN has remained silent since Dec. 6 despite repeated attempts to contact it, according to NASA. As part of the recovery ...

NASA is spending this week trying to rouse a veteran Mars orbiter that has not answered a single call in more than a month, a silence that threatens one of the agency’s most productive planetary ...

The James Webb telescope's search for habitable exoplanets is getting a big boost from its new star-watching companion, ...

A Mars spacecraft has now been AWOL for more than a month. But NASA hasn't given up hope of restoring contact with the MAVEN ...

NASA planetary science division director Louise Prockter conceded that the agency is "very unlikely" to recover its MAVEN ...

NASA lost contact with the MAVEN probe in Mars orbit, and teams are working to reestablish communications after an unexpected ...

Among other things, the James Webb Space Telescope is designed to get us closer to finding habitable worlds around faraway ...

Scientists are observing an Earth-like exoplanet that may contain water using NASA's James Webb Space Telescope, the space agency said in a news release. The exoplanet, known as TRAPPIST-1 e, orbits ...

Spectacular clouds swirl across the surface of Jupiter. These clouds contain water, just like Earth's, but are much denser on ...

A decade of observations of four planets around the young planetary system V1298 Tau revealed a rare, long-sought missing ...

(NEW YORK) — Mars is a cold, dry, desert-like planet. But billions of years ago, scientific evidence suggests that it had a thick atmosphere, which kept it warm enough to support flowing water on its ...

A Southwest Research Institute-led study modeled the chemistry of TOI-270 d, an exoplanet between Earth and Neptune in size, finding evidence that it could be a giant rocky planet shrouded in a thick, ...