In the 1990s, NASA's Galileo spacecraft discovered a secondary magnetic field on Europa, suggesting the presence of a salty ocean beneath its ice. Europa is continually pulled by Jupiter's immense ...

Here, the 'ice volcano' does not erupt molten rock, but rather 'ice magma' formed from a mixture of water ice, liquid brine, ...

With help from amateur astronomers, scientists tracked how an asteroid traveled from space, broke up in Earth's atmosphere ...

Every so often, Jupiter's strong gravity sends an asteroid hurtling through the solar system, sometimes towards Earth. Last ...

The milestone highlights the accelerating rate of discoveries, just over three decades since the first exoplanets were found.

Saturn will put on a show for professional and backyard astromers alike, and be the brightest and closest it has been to ...

NASA has confirmed 6,000 exoplanets, marking a major milestone in humanity’s quest to understand other worlds. From gas ...

Hubble Space Telescope images of Jupiter have been "photo-mapped onto a sphere," and animated into a full rotation, according ...

Scientists at the University of Reading are helping Nasa capture images of Jupiter using remore access to the Keck telescope.

NOAA's Richard Ullman speaks on the SWFO-L1 mission. The mission will be launching alongside NASA's IMAP no earlier than Sept. 23.

American space agency NASA announced this week the counter showing the number of confirmed exoplanets has now reached over ...

NASA confirms that the number of discovered exoplanets outside our solar system has reached 6,000, marking a major milestone in space research.