WTOP has been reporting on the sky sightings that have been taking place in New Jersey and now the DMV. People who are not ...

As its name suggests, the mission’s target is Europa, one of the biggest of Jupiter’s 95 known moons ... and Triton, the ...

German astronomer Simon Marius is best remembered for his disputes with Galileo Galilei over priority for discovering Jupiter ...

NASA's recent flybys of Io, however, reveal that it likely doesn't contain a global magma ocean beneath its surface, as ...

Hundreds of volcanoes and lava lakes on Jupiter’s moon Io are likely powered in the same way as Earth’s volcanoes.

The Cold Moon — the 12th and final full moon of 2024 — will rise on Sunday (Dec. 15). It will ascend higher into the night ...

Billionaire and nominee to become the next head of NASA Jared Isaacman is certainly a fan of SpaceX having relied on Elon ...

A.48 Commercial Satellite Data Earth Science Research and Applications (CESRA) was established to identify, evaluate, and ...

On Dec. 12, at 11:15 p.m. EST, NASA's Lucy spacecraft, currently in a two-year orbit around the sun, will skim Earth's ...

NASA's Lucy spacecraft will perform a close flyby of Earth on December 12, utilizing a gravity assist to adjust its ...

A new NASA-led study has found that how rain falls in a given year is nearly as important to the world’s vegetation as how ...

The spacecraft is rapidly approaching our planet at high speed and will use Earth’s gravitational pull to gain a fair bit of ...