Amy Simon of NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, lead author of the paper published recently in The ...

Onboard Juno is its famed camera, dubbed "JunoCam." A two megapixel visible light camera, JunoCam is designed "to study the ...

Since NASA's Juno spacecraft entered Jupiter's orbit in July 2016 and began transmitting image data, the world has gotten ...

A new European Space Agency mission is set to study asteroid Apophis to learn more about how we can handle asteroid threats ...

Ancient people and early astronomers long knew about five planets: Jupiter, Mars, Mercury, Saturn ... many of which have ...

A close flyby of an asteroid as large as Apophis happens only once every 5,000 to 10,000 years. Scientists plan to learn all they can.

Despite the lack of a dedicated mission to the planet, scientists have learned plenty through ground observations and space ...

NASA’s Juno spacecraft has returned new images of Jupiter after its 66th close flyby as it enters the final year of its ...

Jupiter’s Great Red Spot (GRS) has long been a mystery to astronomers. This massive storm, larger than Earth, has swirled in ...

The planet Jupiter has no solid ground – no surface, like the grass or dirt you tread here on Earth. There’s nothing to walk ...

Saturn can help orient you. The ringed planet is somewhat low in the southeast to south at nightfall. Now in Aquarius, Saturn ...

Jupiter, which currently gleams from within the sparkling winter constellation Taurus, reaches opposition with the sun just a ...