A spacecraft shot stunning photographs of Earth from nearly one million miles away on its route to a pulverized asteroid. The ...

NASA has launched the Europa Clipper spacecraft, which will investigate whether the Jovian moon has conditions that support ...

Thanks to the James Webb Space Telescope, scientists have captured the first images of a planet in outer space with ...

Last year the European Space Agency launched the Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer (JUICE), a €1.6-billion probe that is designed to ...

By contrast, the planet Neptune has dark spots that can drift widely in latitude without strong jet streams holding them in ...

Comet Tsuchinshan-Atlas made its closest pass to Earth this weekend, but weather permitting, it should be visible to the ...

Research indicates that Ceres, initially believed to be rocky, is predominantly icy, challenging earlier views. The findings ...

Jupiter's Titanic Storm Wiggles Like a Plate of Gelatin Jupiter's birthmark is an unbelievably huge storm that’s mysteriously crimson red in color. It looks like a bloodshot cycloptic eye staring back ...

Jupiter’s Great Red Spot, the solar system’s largest storm, wiggles like gelatin and contracts like a stress ball, new observations from Hubble Space Telescope find.

Special equipment built at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the 1970s and attached to NASA’s Voyager 2 spacecraft ...

Explore the best gifts for space enthusiasts and backyard observers in our 2024 Holiday Gift Guide. The holiday season is the ...

Although the title suggests it, Lonely Planet is not some outer space sci fi adventure, not even remotely. Perhaps it could ...