NASA's Europa Clipper will launch aboard a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket from Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Despite concerns over some defective transistors on the spacecraft, the mission remains on ...

Our universe is always being explored, and a recent discovery was made about the catchily named exoplanet HD 189733 b. This ...

The fifth planet from the sun, Jupiter is what watercolor dreams are made of. Vibrant bands of clouds ripple around its thick atmosphere, making up a world so large that more than 1,300 Earths ...

A temporary “mini-moon” will whirl around Earth for about two months as our planet’s gravity captures a small asteroid in its orbit.

revers_jr - stock.adobe.com A six-pack of planets will line up and light up the night sky this week, folks. On August 28th, Mercury, Mars, Jupiter, Uranus, Neptune, and Saturn will align for our ...

Jupiter is the largest planet in our Solar System, and the competition really isn’t even close. It’s an absolutely massive planet and it helped define what a gas giant planet truly is.

will help JUICE reach the Jupiter system in 2031. In August, JUICE performed a first-of-its-kind Earth-Moon gravity assist, which gave the spacecraft an extra boost on its way to Venus. After visiting ...

But it's not a planet - it's actually one of Jupiter's 95 moons. On Tuesday, NASA announced from the Jet Propulsion Laboratory that the Europa Clipper is ready to launch to Jupiter's moon ...

Astronomers from the Nicolaus Copernicus University in Torun have discovered a new planet in the constellation of the Great ...

Giant auroras, raging clouds and a storm three centuries in the making - our solar system's largest planet is every bit as dramatic as its tempestuous appearance suggests. Jupiter, the largest planet ...