The new moon of May occurs on May 26. Two days later the moon will make a close pass to Jupiter in the evening sky, and the ...

A British-South African endurance swimmer is closing in on the finish line of his 62-mile swim around Martha’s Vineyard. He's ...

Scientists may have solved the mystery of why the moon shows ancient signs of magnetism although it has no magnetic field today. An impact, such as from a large asteroid, could have generated a cloud ...

Astronomers have long been intrigued by the makeup of the asteroid belt’s largest body. When it was first spotted in 1801, ...

It targeted a scientifically intriguing site near the Moon’s south pole region. While Athena’s tipped-over landing meant it couldn’t do all the scientific explorations it had planned, the data it ...

The Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore, which operates the Webb and Hubble telescopes, released a video of ...

Made with data from the JIRAM instrument aboard NASA’s Juno, this animation shows the south polar region of Jupiter’s ... shows the central cyclone at Jupiter’s north pole and the eight cyclones that ...

Made with data from the JIRAM instrument aboard NASA’s Juno, this animation shows the south polar ... What's more, Jupiter's cyclones cluster together while approaching the pole, and their ...

The study authors figured that Jupiter’s gravity must therefore be constantly kneading ... its existence but directly sampled some of it erupting out of the moon’s South Pole. And although there is ...

This illustration depicts NASA’s Juno spacecraft soaring over Jupiter’s south pole. The spacecraft was making its 71st close approach to Jupiter when it unexpectedly entered into a precautionary ...

You must have heard about those gigantic oceans that exist on Earth: the Pacific, the Atlantic, and so on. But what if ...