Loki Patera is 202 kilometres (126 mi) in diameter, covers 20,000 sq km (7,700 sq mi), and was the largest volcanic feature ...

However, a new study has found chorus waves much farther from Earth than scientists thought possible, suggesting that changes in the frequency of a magnetic field can also create chorus waves.

Jupiter has many moons, including Europa, Ganymede, Io, and Callisto ... the spin is called retrograde rotation. Its magnetosphere is tipped almost 60 degrees from its axis of rotation.

Juno’s findings have already transformed how we view Jupiter, uncovering a wildly dynamic atmosphere, a powerful magnetosphere, and moons like Europa and Ganymede with stories ... in the clouds or ...

More pocked with craters than any other object in our solar system, Jupiter's outermost and second-biggest Galilean moon, Callisto, appears geologically unremarkable. In the 1990s, however, NASA's ...

It is a Japanese-led commercial mission. Astronauts won't be walking on the moon until 2027, but you’ll see a lot of rockets heading there this year, part of an ambitious series of uncrewed ...

What is the moon phase today? Today, Feb. 13, 2025, the moon is 15 days old and is in the Full Moon phase of its lunar cycle. It is 99% illuminated. Moon phases reveal the passage of time in the ...

Here are the dates for the full moons in 2025. The next full moon will be on Friday, March 14, 2025. It will officially reach its full moon phase at 2:55 a.m. EDT (0755 GMT) but local moonrise ...

At 7:36 a.m. EST, today is every stargazer’s favorite moment of the month — the new moon. This lunar phase sees the moon roughly between the Earth and the sun, making the moon invisible but ...

By Becky Ferreira For a few months last fall, a school-bus-size space rock named 2024 PT5 gained fame as Earth’s new “mini-moon.” Astronomers rushed to study the object while it was still ...

A private U.S. spacecraft bound for the moon has captured stunning images of Earth one week into its flight. It carries experiments for NASA, part of the space agency's effort to return astronauts ...

One week ago, a private lunar lander left the ground on a nearly 7-week journey to reach the surface of the moon. The launch may not have had the headline-grabbing power of last year's historic ...