NASA sent the Lucy probe out to study ancient space rocks, not to rewrite the rulebook on how small worlds can assemble ...

Far from Earth, a small robotic explorer has just delivered a surprise that planetary scientists have never seen up close ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The NASA spacecraft tasked with uncovering the secrets of Jupiter, king of the planets, is running out of time. The Juno probe has ...

Observations of the two solar system gas giants have revealed that Jupiter 's north pole hosts a central polar vortex ...

An exceptionally heavy interplanetary probe is on an eight-year journey to Jupiter, using the gravity of Earth and Venus to propel it on its path toward the gas giant. Just weeks before its scheduled ...

NASA's Europa Clipper spacecraft has captured ultraviolet images of interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS, revealing hidden chemical ...

Over the years, passing spacecraft have observed mystifying weather patterns at the poles of Jupiter and Saturn. The two ...

After five years of rocketing to Jupiter at 60,000 mph, the fastest object ever created by humans, NASA’s Juno spacecraft, must flawlessly slam on the brakes before its July 4 arrival to the ...

The JWST tracks a path right-to-left across the eastern horizon in the hours following sunset in January. On Jan. 19 it will be located to the left of the star Nu Orionis in the raised right arm of ...

A NASA spacecraft is ready to set sail for Jupiter and its moon Europa, one of the best bets for finding life beyond Earth. Europa Clipper will peer beneath the moon’s icy crust where an ocean is ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. On Dec. 28, 2000, NASA’s Galileo spacecraft discovered auroras on Ganymede, Jupiter’s largest moon. Galileo launched in 1989 on a ...