The Hubble Space Telescope and the Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer have captured fresh images of an interstellar comet as the ...

Jupiter’s nights are anything but dark. Recent images from a fleet of NASA spacecraft and the James Webb Space Telescope ...

Night sky update for December 17, 2025, covering the moon phase, visible planets, meteor showers, and key space and astronomy news from today ...

In 2024, space exploration dazzled the world. NASA’s Europa Clipper began its journey to study Jupiter’s moon Europa. SpaceX’s Starship achieved its first successful landing, a critical milestone for ...

Images from NASA's Galileo mission reveal a tantalizing starburst-like feature. Scientists call it a "wall demon." ...

Jupiter’s moon Ganymede could be a vast dark matter detector, and upcoming space missions might be able to spot distinctive dark matter craters on its ancient surface. Physicists searching for dark ...

A new study reveals the likely origin of a mysterious spider-like pattern first spotted on Jupiter's moon Europa in 1998. The ...

CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. Exploring Space Lectures Lecturer: Scott Bolton, Southwest Research Institute The Juno orbiter’s mission is to understand the origin and evolution ...

Among the many federal projects in limbo during this government shutdown - planetary science. That means things like analyzing giant asteroids or studying the magnetosphere of Jupiter or better ...

Thanks to NASA’s Juno mission, we’re seeing Jupiter like never before! Jupiter is the largest planet in our solar system—and thanks to NASA’s Juno mission, we’re seeing it like never before! Launched ...

That’s why scientists designed an instrument called coronagraph in the early 1930s. Coronagraph, as NASA describes, is ...