The Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer (JUICE) mission launched atop a Ariane 5 rocket from Europe's Spaceport in Kourou, French ...

New observatories and spacecraft missions are probing environments in our solar system that could potentially host life but ...

Our solar system has two ice giants, Uranus and Neptune, but there may have been a third. According to a new study published ...

Ganymede may generate its magnetic field through a core that is still forming today, challenging long-held ideas about ...

Scientists are listening in on sperm whale conversations and studying Earth's strangest microbes to prepare humanity for ...

A new study reanalyzing 14 years of Hubble data weakens evidence for water vapor plumes on Europa, though scientists say the ...

NASA’s Europa Clipper and ESA’s JUICE captured opposite sides of interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS at the same time, revealing strange chemistry inside it.

ESA’s Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer (JUICE) that was launched in 2023 will take about 8 years to arrive at the jovian system ...

In late 2025, astronomers spotted an interstellar comet making a quick trip through the solar system. 3I/ATLAS was discovered in July when it was just inside Jupiter’s orbit. It’s now about halfway ...

Venus, now an "evening star," remains the brightest object in the sky after the moon, while Jupiter shines higher above it Getty A crescent moon will appear alongside Venus and Jupiter in the western ...

If the new Vera C. Rubin Observatory had begun its science validation phase a few weeks earlier, it might have been up and running in time to discover 3I/ATLAS first.

The frozen worlds orbiting Jupiter and Saturn might be encapsulated in "fluffy ice" that could send landers spiraling down a pit of icy space slush, scientists warn. Reading time 4 minutes Of the ...