The fifth planet from the sun, Jupiter is what watercolor dreams are made of. Vibrant bands of clouds ripple around its thick atmosphere, making up a world so large that more than 1,300 Earths ...

The Search for Life on Jupiter's Ocean Moon. Europa, like the other planets and moons in our solar system, is more than four billion years old. But a relative lack of impact craters implies that ...

The other, VERITAS, will make detailed maps of the planet’s surface and try to reconstruct its geologic history. NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft recorded this view of Jupiter’s moon Io ...

“But none of the other planets have that.” That’s why Mercury, Venus, Mars, and even Jupiter’s volcanic moon have plenty of basalt but little granite. It’s also why off-planet volcanoes ...

This story appears in the August 2017 issue of National Geographic ... planets,” he recalled. Assigned at JPL to envision possible missions beyond Mars, Flandro plotted the future positions of ...

Set to launch in October, Lucy will need two of these arrays to generate power during its 12-year mission to explore Jupiter’s ... September 2021 issue of National Geographic magazine.

Astronomy has lost one of its most assiduous calculators of eclipses with the passing of astronomer Fred Espenak, known ...

The Institute for Museum and Library Services was established in 1996 and is the largest source of federal funding for museums and libraries like the South Dakota Discovery Center in Pierre. The Trump ...

Jupiter, roughly 562 million miles from Earth today, has nearly 100 moons. But Batygin and his collaborator Fred Adams' ...

A recent study found that Jupiter was once twice the size that it is now, making it big enough to swallow up 2,000 Earths.

Jupiter may have once been more than twice its current size, with a magnetic field 50 times stronger, say scientists who ...

White House Budget Plan Would Devastate U.S. Space Science Scientists are rallying to reverse ruinous proposed cuts to both ...