Highlights include a morning meetup between Jupiter and Venus, a chance to see the Perseid meteor shower, and a window into ...

Jupiter's four Galilean moons will line up in front of Jupiter in the early morning sky on Aug. 8. The predawn hours of Aug. 8 present a perfect opportunity to see Jupiter's four largest moons line up ...

Instead, scientists are looking into existing spacecraft already in orbit around other planets. Harvard Professor Avi Loeb ...

From meteor showers to visible nebulas, August is primed to be an action-packed month for stargazers in the United States. ...

The planetary meet up between the two brightest planets in our solar system is known as the conjunction and takes place over ...

American space agency NASA says it used the gravity assist maneuver the Europa Clipper conducted back in March to test the ...

Using the thermal equivalent of giving it a sharp whack, NASA repaired the camera of its Jupiter-orbiting Juno probe from 370 ...

NASA's Juno spacecraft launched in August 2011 from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station on Florida’s Atlantic coast. Since it arrived in 2016 at Jupiter's orbit, the vehicle, which looks something ...

A massive, fast-orbiting planet is inching closer to its star, and scientists now have direct evidence of its impending ...

Launched in October 2024, Europa Clipper is on a 1.8-billion-mile (2.9-billion-kilometer) journey to study Jupiter and its moons. On March 1, it flew within 550 miles (884 kilometers) of Mars' surface ...

NASA’s Juno spacecraft has once again delivered a stunning view of Jupiter’s ever-changing atmosphere. In this latest image, a trail of drifting clouds appears to form the shape of a dolphin gliding ...

In this artist’s concept, the moon Ganymede orbits the giant planet Jupiter. NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope observed aurorae on the moon generated by Ganymede’s magnetic fields.