NASA's mission to send a spacecraft to scour Jupiter's moon Europa for signs of life appears back on track after Hurricane ...

Mars will be making its closest approach to Earth in two years, and thus, the mighty red planet, named for the god of war ...

On Friday (Jan. 10), the moon will pass near Jupiter, meeting up with the gas giant in the constellation Taurus. Viewers can ...

The larger moons of Pluto and Earth likely formed through a collisional process with Charon and our moon, respectively, ...

Research and development is underway to create robots that can hunt for signs of life in the vast oceans that exist under the ...

Nearly 415 years ago to the day astronomer Galileo Galilei discovered the moons surrounding Jupiter looking through his ...

Worlds will align for a "planetary parade" in January, with four bright and easily visible to the naked eye. But an even ...

So I grabbed my camera, ran outside, and looked up just as Mars was supposed to emerge from the Moon's curved horizon. Seen ...

these moon rings were stable — particularly Jupiter’s Iapetus. Even Earth's moon had a 95% chance of supporting a stable ring system in the simulations. "[W]e did not anticipate that moons in ...

On this date, Jan. 17, 2002, the Galileo probe made it’s 33 rd pass of Jupiter’s moon, Io. After Voyager ... temperatures hotter than those on Earth – many of them exceeding 1000 degrees ...

At this brightness, the moon will outshine the planet and appear larger in the night sky, given it is much closer to Earth than Jupiter, the fifth planet from the sun. Related: Night sky ...

At this brightness, the moon will outshine the planet and appear larger in the night sky, given it is much closer to Earth than Jupiter, the fifth planet from the sun. Related: Night sky, January 2025 ...