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

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

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

On Aug. 5, 2011, NASA launched the Juno spacecraft on a mission to study Jupiter, the largest planet in the solar system. The ...

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

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

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 ...

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

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

The other TRACERS spacecraft, imaginatively called Space Vehicle 2 (SV2), is in good health and engineers have started the ...

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.