By looking at the shifting of stars in photos from the New Horizons probe, astronomers have calculated its position in the ...

During July, magnitude 5.8 Uranus can be spotted as a blue-green speck in binoculars and as a small 3.5 arc-seconds-wide disk ...

A little-known fact to the general public is that there's more moving around Jupiter's orbit than just the giant gas planet.

ESA's Mars Express orbiter captured footage of the Mars' moon Deimos pass in front of Ganymede, Europa, Jupiter, Io and Callisto (in that order). Credit: Space.com | footage credit: ESA/DLR/FU Berlin ...

Firefly Aerospace's Blue Ghost lunar lander captured this shot of its own shadow on the moon just after its touchdown on March 2, 2025. (Image credit: Firefly Aerospace) — 'We're on the moon!' ...

Like it says in the title, the page scales down our solar system so each pixel onscreen represents 3,474.8 kilometers⁠—the diameter of the moon, and about the distance between New York and Las ...

The Voyager 1 spacecraft had flown past this moon of Jupiter, catching the first glimpse of active volcanism on a world other than Earth. Umbrella-shaped outbursts of magmatic matter rocketed into ...

A swarm of large asteroids likely lurking around Venus could one day pose an "invisible threat" to Earth if left unchecked, astronomers have warned.

How to see Mercury, the moon and the Gemini twins pass close together in the night sky this week See Jupiter pair up with a sliver of the moon tonight ...

The curious minds at What If investigate which of Jupiter’s 95 moons could potentially support human survival. Arnold Schwarzenegger: Net zero is bogus Chicago Sky’s Angel Reese made career ...

The icy surface of Europa, one of Jupiter's moons, has captured scientists' attention. Compounds like carbon dioxide and salt have been detected there, suggesting that an ocean could be hidden beneath ...