Look east around 4 a.m. local time, just before dawn, to see the slender form of the crescent moon climb above the horizon.

Jupiter's intense radiation environment likely lights up Europa's icy shell, which overlies a huge, potentially habitable ocean of salty liquid water, researchers have found. "If Europa weren't ...

A Waning ‘Super Flower Moon’ Visits Saturn, Then Jupiter As June Goes Dark: ... About 25 light-years away, this blue star will be famous to some from the cult sci-fi movie ...

December 18, 2008. NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope caught Jupiter’s moon Ganymede playing a game of “peek-a-boo.” In this crisp Hubble image, Ganymede is about to duck behind the giant planet.

A huge black "spot" on Jupiter's surface is actually the neat shadow from an eclipse Credit: NASA. The images were taken by Nasa's Juno probe, which has been circling Jupiter since 2016.

Jupiter might have its own little night light, in the form of an icy moon that glows in the dark. Like Earth’s lunar companion, the Jovian moon Europa shines brightly on its sunlight side.

"Since dark features on Jupiter's atmosphere tend to run deeper than light features, the Abyss may really be the deep hole that it appears," says the team at Astronomy Picture of the Day, who ...

NASA's Psyche and JUICE missions, India's Chandrayaan-3, SpaceX's Polaris Dawn, and Boeing's Starliner should all get launched into space in 2023.

Jupiter has a lot of hydrogen. It is very massive, the second heaviest object in the solar system. By looking at the night side, they looked at the portion hidden from the Sun. Sunlight can create ...

The Pale Blue Dot is a photograph of Earth taken Feb. 14, 1990, by NASA’s Voyager 1 at a distance of 3.7 billion miles (6 billion kilometers) from the Sun. Credit... NASA/JPL-Caltech ...