NASA's Juno spacecraft made a close flyby of Jupiter moon lo. See an animation of the images the probe captured created by ...

Half of the moon will be illuminated as it reaches its first quarter phase on Monday, June 2. The first quarter phase marks ...

Astronomically speaking, June is laid back. No meteor showers of note, no eclipses and no bright comets are expected. But ...

NASA's Juno mission finds a massive lava lake in Jupiter, offering new insights into volcanic activity beyond Earth and the ...

Raman spectroscopy uses scattered light to identify a substance's chemical ingredients and is one of the most widely used ...

"It's astonishing that even after 4.5 billion years, enough clues remain to let us reconstruct Jupiter's physical state at the dawn of its existence," stated Fred C. Adams, professor of physics and ...

A new study published in Nature Astronomy on May 20, 2025, uncovers that Jupiter was once twice its present size ...

NASA Juno spacecraft data has been used to create an animation of "Steeple Mountain" and a lava lake known as Loki Patera on Jupiter's moon Io. Credit: Space.com | NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/MSSS | edited ...

Earth and space mingle in stunning ways for the 2025 Milky Way Photographer of the Year contest. From the “geological ...

This prototype lander is collecting ice samples here on Earth, in the hope that it might help scientists peek at the ocean ...

Perseverance is racing through its fastest science mission yet, uncovering ancient rocks that hint at Mars’ violent, watery ...

NASA’s GRAIL mission reveals thermal differences in the moon’s mantle, explaining surface contrasts between its sides.