Raman spectroscopy uses scattered light to identify a substance's chemical ingredients and is one of the most widely used scientific methods in space exploration. It is used for lunar exploration to ...

A series of experiments led by Southwest Research Institute's Dr. Ujjwal Raut support spectral data recently collected by the ...

NASA Juno spacecraft data has been used to create an animation of "Steeple Mountain" and a lava lake known as Loki Patera on Jupiter's moon Io. Credit: Space.com | NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/MSSS | edited ...

In its earliest days, Jupiter may have been even more colossal than it is now—twice as large, in fact, with a magnetic field ...

Whether you're a seasoned stargazer or a backyard observer with binoculars, the final week of May offers a treasure trove of ...

Can Mars become a second Earth? Explore the science, challenges, and future of terraforming Mars for human colonization.

While the moon once had a weak magnetic field generated by a small molten core, the team's research suggests it likely wouldn ...

Astronomers have calculated that the gas giant Jupiter used to be twice as big as it is now, based on the odd orbits of two ...

NASA’s Juno spacecrafthas once again delivered breathtaking images of Jupiter, capturing the giant planet’s swirling storms ...

New Moon brings excellent dark-sky conditions for observing galaxies, nebulae, and star clusters in the sky this week.

Stunning new Jupiter photos from NASA’s Juno spacecraft reveal storms, cloud bands, and its volcanic moon Io as the mission ...

Jupiter's already the big kahuna of the Solar System, an absolute unit of a planet with a mass 2.5 times greater than all of ...