Juno arrived at Jupiter in 2016 and has made over 60 orbits of the giant planet, but for the past few years it has been edging closer and making fly-bys of the large Galilean moons. On Dec. 30, 2023 ...

Even more exciting is the Jovian moon Io, the Galilean moon closest to the giant planet. There, as many as eight or nine volcanoes are erupting at any one time. In fact, January 1980 was the only ...

A cargo plane flew the HALO module to the U.S. from Turin, Italy, where it was constructed by the company Thales Alenia Space ...

Chinese researchers analyzed the first-ever soil samples returned from the far side of the moon, but further samples will be ...

Despite decades of searching for this signal, astronomers have yet to find it. The problem is that our Earth is too noisy, making it nearly impossible to capture this whisper. The solution is to go to ...

A new image has emerged of the Red Planet rising above the lunar limb after being occulted by the moon in January.

Astronomers have discovered a planet that orbits at a 90-degree angle around a rare pair of strange stars—a real-life 'twist' ...

“The moon’s orbit around the Earth is not perfect; it’s elliptical, or egg shaped. So, there are points throughout the year when it’s closer to the Earth and points when it’s farther ...

Astronomers claim they've found the most promising signs of possible life on a planet outside of our solar system.

Here are the dates for the full moons in 2025. The next full moon will be on Monday, May 12. It will officially reach its full moon phase at 12:56 p.m. EST (1656 GMT), but local moonrise times ...

The phenomenon of a Full Moon arises when our planet, Earth, is precisely sandwiched between the Sun and the Moon. This alignment ensures the entire side of the Moon that faces us gleams under ...