And now, new research based on images taken by the Voyager 2 spacecraft has suggested that Miranda, a small Uranian icy moon, ...

Thanks to images from various NASA spacecraft, we can get an up-close look at the Jupiter ocean moon Europa long before the ...

Researchers are working on technology that could follow NASA’s Europa Clipper mission and hunt for life in the ocean of ...

Saturn shines in the south most of the night, Jupiter rises in the early evening, while Mars is visible in the early morning sky.

Morgan L. Cable, who has a Ph.D. in inorganic chemistry from Caltech, has multiple team leadership roles on the Europa ...

The mission ends in 2034 with a planned crash into Ganymede — Jupiter's biggest moon and the solar system's too. There's more radiation around Jupiter than anywhere else in our solar system ...

As NASA continues to innovate for the benefit of humanity, agency inventions that use new structures to harness sunlight for ...

Night sky observers always factor in the moon to determine the best time for astronomy viewing, especially for the two meteor ...

Despite the lack of a dedicated mission to the planet, scientists have learned plenty through ground observations and space telescopes ...

Astronomers have identified many planets orbiting distant stars using sophisticated observatories. But there’s something they ...

One of the most tantalizing worlds in the solar system is Europa, a moon of Jupiter covered in a rind of ice, beneath which, scientists believe, lies a warm, salty, mineral-rich ocean—and ...