Scientists believe the moon's water, chemistry and energy could support life. Marking the latest foray into space exploration ...

Solar flares are a fascinating thing and have a profound effect on what astronomers refer to as "space weather." These events ...

Weeks before Europa Clipper was to be shipped for launch, scientists discovered a potentially fatal flaw that might endanger ...

Jamie Carter is an award-winning reporter who covers the night sky. An image of Jupiter and Io as seen by NASA's Juno on August 18, 2024 during its 64rd perijove. ... [+] Processed by citizen ...

There are hundreds of active volcanoes on Io. The new one is located just south of Io’s equator and the Juno images show ...

The Juice spacecraft’s main camera is called Janus, which will take high-resolution images of Jupiter’s moons to identify surface features, as well as observing the clouds of Jupiter.

Astronomers have captured a stunning new view of one of the Milky Way’s closest galactic neighbours, the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC). Located approximately 210,000 light-years away, the SMC is ...

The high-resolution science camera on the JUICE probe, which is ultimately headed to Jupiter, was busy snapping images of craters on the moon and clouds in Earth's atmosphere as the spacecraft ...

Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer (JUICE) mission photographed the Earth, moon and Uranus as it heads toward Venus for a gravity assist next year.

A more realistic use for lasers is for deflecting incoming asteroids or as propulsion systems for spacecraft. In a new paper, ...

The first ever 3D radiation map of Jupiter and its moons has been created ... but instead was made to capture images of stars that help determine the spacecraft's orientation in space.

The data includes over 40 terabytes of content, including several new Jupiter images. While all of the data is exciting, the images of Jupiter showcase just how much potential James Webb has to ...