American space agency NASA announced the completion of the Deep Space Optical Communications (DSOC) experiment, described as a success.

On Sept. 21, 2003, NASA's Galileo mission to Jupiter and its moons came to an end. After 14 years of exploration, the Galileo ...

This video takes you on a journey through Jupiter’s atmosphere, revealing the planet’s immense storms, powerful cyclones, and ...

The Europa Clipper cost is estimated to be around $5 billion. This mission aims to investigate Europa’s potential for ...

The period known as "cosmic noon," which took place roughly 2 to 3 billion years after the Big Bang, was characterized by the rapid formation of new stars and planetary systems. Naturally, objects ...

It’s been just over 48 years since Voyager 1 was launched on September 5, 1977 from Cape Canaveral, originally to study our Solar System’s planets. Voyager 1 would explore Jupiter and ...

On Sept. 14, 1959, the Soviet probe Luna 2 -- known informally as Lunik 2 -- became the first Earth-launched space vehicle to ...

I/ATLAS is a fast, ancient interstellar object. Its odd features fuel both scientific study and speculation. On July 1, astronomers detected a strange, fast-moving object racing toward the Sun. Named ...

Data collected during the Juno spacecraft's flyby of Jupiter's moon Europa has been converted into audio. "The variation of frequency of the plasma waves observed near Europa can be heard as the ...

Although the Juno mission was expected to last only a few years, the spacecraft is still going strong despite operating in Jupiter’s intense radiation belts. Bolton explains how the Juno team has ...

Harvard astronomer Avi Loeb argued interstellar object 3I/ATLAS "could either visit us or release some mini-probes that ...

NASA's Juno spacecraft has spied the final "auroral footprint" of a moon of Jupiter, meaning that it has watched as the moon ...