Research Fellow Dr. Babak Bakhit has encountered one of his most challenging projects to date—contributing to the European Space Agency's (ESA) JUpiter ICy moons Explorer (JUICE) mission.

In late January this year, NASA’s Psyche spacecraft turned its cameras to the sky and captured some incredible images. The ...

NASA's Europa Clipper is about to use Mars' gravitational pull to slingshot itself towards Jupiter's smallest moon later this ...

Let’s get to the sky for March 2025! During March 2025 Venus and the moon are the “stars” of the sky show for the month. Venus remains bright, the moon undergoes a total lunar eclipse and partially ...

NASA's Lucy spacecraft, on its way to Jupiter's Trojan asteroids, has its next target in its sights: the main belt asteroid 52246 Donaldjohanson. Currently 45 million miles (70 million kilometers) ...

Io is Jupiter's third-largest moon, spanning roughly 2,300 miles (3,700 kilometers) across, which makes it slightly bigger than Earth's moon. It orbits Jupiter at a distance of around 262,000 ...

I pick out North America’s celestial highlights for the week ahead (which also applies to northern hemisphere mid-northern latitudes).

Check my main feed for more in-depth articles on ... The one closest to the moon is Jupiter, shining at a magnitude of -2.5, while Aldebaran — the brightest star in the constellation Taurus ...

There’s more to come in February, with Jupiter and the Moon "getting cosy" in the sky tonight. Between February 5-8, the gas giant planet will sit close to a waxing gibbous Moon – in its phase ...

More pocked with craters than any other object in our solar system, Jupiter's outermost and second-biggest Galilean moon, Callisto, appears geologically unremarkable. In the 1990s, however ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. (WIS) - The moon, Jupiter, and the star Aldebaran will be very close with each other Thursday night. February is already the month of romance and the moon will kiss Jupiter with ...

The mission's main objective is to investigate whether ... For instance, last year, the European Space Agency's Jupiter Icy Moon Explorer (JUICE) — which will also be exploring Europa, in ...