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

On the evening of May 27, the 23-hour-old moon will appear low in the northwestern sky starting about a half-hour after ...

The moon spent a few million years as a volcanic wasteland, covered with ongoing eruptions that spewed from mountains and ...

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, roughly 562 million miles from Earth today, has nearly 100 moons. But Batygin and his collaborator Fred Adams' research focused on two of the smaller ones, Amalthea and Thebe. Both are inside ...

New observations from NASA's James Webb Space Telescope have revealed that auroras on Jupiter are hundreds of times brighter ...

On Earth, these are known as the northern lights ... Europa Clipper captures Mars in infrared on way to Jupiter moon In other Jupiter-related news, a robotic spacecraft on its way to study ...

Earth's moon is currently emerging from its ... according to the stargazing site in-the-sky.org. Want to see the moon or Jupiter up close? The Celestron NexStar 4SE is ideal for beginners wanting ...

Europa Clipper tested its infrared camera during a Mars flyby, preparing for its 2030 mission to Jupiter’s moon Europa.

The result may have been comparable to Jupiter's moon Io, the most volcanic body in the solar system. Early in the history of the solar system, a massive protoplanet plowed into a young Earth.

also extends to Jupiter's rings and many moons. Juno’s trajectory passes by Io every other orbit, flying over the same part of the moon each time. Though Io is not much larger than Earth's own moon, ...