In a landmark observation by a team of international researchers, NASA's Juno spacecraft has, for the first time, clearly ...

The European Space Agency's (ESA) JUICE spacecraft launched atop an Ariane 5 rocket from French Guiana in April 2023. The ...

Europe's most advanced interplanetary space probe lost contact with Earth for nearly a full day leading up to a crucial flyby of Venus that will occur on Sunday (Aug. 31). JUICE (short for "Jupiter ...

Is the future great planetary laboratory hurtling in our direction incognito, veiled in gloom and cold? That’s what astronomers think and have already begun to decipher its secret. Identified first by ...

Saturn’s moon Enceladus has long dazzled scientists with its icy plumes that spew water and mysterious organic molecules into space, fueling hopes of a habitable ocean beneath. But new experiments ...

Jupiter hosts the brightest and most spectacular auroras in the solar system. Near its poles, these shimmering lights offer a glimpse into how the planet interacts with the solar wind and moons swept ...

For decades, Jupiter's poles have amazed astronomers with bright auroras. Now, NASA's Juno spacecraft has unveiled a missing piece of this cosmic jigsaw, at last photographing the elusive shadow of ...

Scientists have recreated the extreme conditions found on the frozen moons of the outer solar system and uncovered something startling: water behaves in a way never seen on Earth. In the near-vacuum ...