The gas giants outside our solar system are not capable of hosting extraterrestrial life, but do offer clues in a lingering ...

Getting from Earth to space isn’t just about speed—it’s about planning the right trajectory. The Moon, our closest neighbor, ...

Tense, public squabbles between SpaceX CEO Elon Musk and NASA have stirred the space industry, but behind the scenes, space ...

Studying young gas giant exoplanets' compositions and orbits could help us better understand how our own solar system's gas ...

The discovery is keeping astronomers on their toes about how planets are formed.

Using data collected by NASA's Juno spacecraft as it flew past Jupiter's highly volcanic moon Io in late 2023 and again in ...

Europa, one of Jupiter’s intriguing moons, is hiding an ocean beneath its icy shell — an ocean that might harbor alien life.

The James Webb Space Telescope is investigating the Flame Nebula, hunting for "failed stars" to better understand how brown ...

Dec. 9, 2024 — A NASA Hubble Space Telescope observation program called OPAL (Outer Planet Atmospheres Legacy) obtains long-term baseline observations of Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune in ...

If there was a contest for the most interesting moon in our solar system, Callisto would be a contender. Jupiter's ...

“These moons are a few kilometers in size and are likely all fragments of a smaller number of originally captured moons that ...