Every second, hypervelocity collisions may be blasting tiny flecks of Earth into space. Some of those grains, small enough to ...

Jupiter dwarfs every other world orbiting the Sun. Its volume, recorded at 1,431,281,810,739,360 cubic kilometers, is large ...

Some of the James Webb Space Telescope’s first real science won’t be all far-off galaxies and distant stars. In fact, some of the first heavy-hitting science will come from our cosmic backyard. As ...

Jupiter's atmosphere holds surprising levels of oxygen, which could revolutionize our understanding of the largest planet in ...

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The European Space Agency's (ESA's) Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer (JUICE) probe is on its (very long) way to Jupiter, and will finally arrive at the King of Planets in 2031. Its primary mission is to ...

Skywatchers are in for a spectacular celestial treat this June as Venus and Jupiter, the two brightest planets visible from ...

THE WOODLANDS, TEXAS — A young, ultrabright Jupiter may have desiccated its now hellish moon Io. The planet’s bygone brilliance could have also vaporized water on Europa and Ganymede, planetary ...

A European spacecraft rocketed away from Earth on Friday on a decadelong quest to explore Jupiter and three of its icy moons that could hold buried oceans. The journey began with a perfect morning ...

With a massive planet come massive storms. Such storms on Jupiter are the focus of a new citizen science project hosted on Zooniverse. Jovian Vortex Hunter launched Tuesday (June 21) to allow anyone ...