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

In 1977, NASA launched Voyager 1 and 2: a pair of spacecraft tasked with touring Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune by ...

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

One of the best-timed shots in TV history is an old clip by BBC's science presenter James Burke which has recently become ...

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

A new study suggests that the planet’s icy interior and liquid ocean could be insulated with a three-to-six-mile-thick layer ...

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

What Is Planet X? Ancient people and early astronomers long knew about five planets: Jupiter, Mars, Mercury, Saturn, and ...

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.

Jupiter, a gas giant with no solid surface, fierce storms, and a metallic hydrogen ocean, is a cosmic giant shielding Earth ...

NASA’s Europa Clipper mission is en route to probe Jupiter’s icy moon, Europa, using advanced tools like MASPEX and UVS to ...