The communications lag between Earth and Jupiter means missions to Europa will need to be smart to deal with problems on ...
NASA and ESA’s Hubble Space Telescope has been observing the outer planets through a program called OPAL (Outer Planet ...
Encountering Neptune in 1989, NASA’s Voyager mission completed humankind’s first close-up exploration of the four giant outer ...
Over the last ten years, OPAL has observed Uranus' northern hemisphere, which has faced the inner solar system for the ...
Researchers from the Juno mission have finally solved a mystery that has puzzled scientists for over four decades.
NASA's Juno spacecraft observed hot lava spots and fresh lava flows on Jupiter's moon Io, the most volcanic world in our ...
Observations made of Jupiter’s moon Io during the Juno mission’s flybys helped astronomers confirm how and why Io became the most volcanic world in the solar system.
Astronomers have discovered an unusual exoplanet with a long "tail" of gas trailing behind it. As NASA details in a recent ...
The Hubble Space Telescope has been imaging the outer planets of our solar system for a decade, learning about their strange ...
A group of Earth scientists have asked the question “Did Earth ever have a ring?” And surprisingly the evidence points to ...
The Juno mission, spearheaded by NASA, aims to unravel the secrets hidden beneath Jupiter’s dense cloud cover. Since its ...
The #LucyMission will perform its 2nd Earth-gravity assist on Dec. 12, putting it on a new course toward its first Trojan ...