Recent flybys of the fiery world refute a leading theory of its inner structure — and reveal how little is understood about ...

Thirty-five years ago, the Hubble Space Telescope was launched into orbit. It's been sending back galactic data and images ...

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER — As SpaceX launched the four-person crew of the Fram2 mission on Monday night, it was a takeoff for the history books as they will be the first humans to ever orbit Earth ...

Hubble is still going strong 35 years after it was launched into space. Celebrate its anniversary with some out-of-this-world images.

In the years since, Hubble has gathered more than 1.6 million observations and 430 terabytes of data. The telescope has ...

NASA's Juno spacecraft has resumed normal operations after entering safe mode twice during its 71st close approach to Jupiter ...

Space exploration missions have revealed that polar vortices aren’t uncommon beyond Earth. They’ve been observed throughout ...

Scientists spent four years challenging an out-of-the-box theory that ammonia and water form slushy hailstones on the gaseous planet. Looks like it’s true.

But new measurements from Juno, coupled with archival data from the Galileo mission, have seemingly ... from tidal heating in the grip of Jupiter's gravitational field — Io moves around Jupiter on an ...

The Fram2 mission was initially intended to undertake the first polar orbit human spaceflight. Supported by Maltese cryptocurrency tycoon Chun Wang, the expedition also involved three of his ...

Since 2016, Juno has sent back spectacular images and discoveries from Jupiter and its moons. From volcanic eruptions on Io to magnetic field data, it has revealed many secrets of the gas giant. This ...

But sometimes, the gas giant gets the best of it. The Juno mission recently went into an unexpected safe mode during a scheduled flyby of Jupiter, temporarily powering down its science instruments.