We went star gazing last night because January this year is supposed to be the absolute best to see the planets. This is what ...

E arth is the only planet we know of that has ever had a fire. While there may be volcanoes pushing out hot magma on the ...

Galileo Galilei's telescopic discovery of Jupiter's four moons in 1610 revolutionized astronomy and supported heliocentric theories. Subsequent centuries saw more moons discovered and a focus shift ...

Ever heard a science fact that made you say, “No way, that can’t be true!”? Well, prepare to be amazed. From strange animal ...

From January to March, the night sky will host a spectacular parade of planets featuring Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus ...

Squeezed and stretched by the competing gravity of Jupiter and the other three Galilean ... which rework and change Io's surface over time. While these have been captured by various spacecraft ...

The image is a reminder of just how beautiful space is, and how often the Jupiter surface experienced solar ... Europa transits twice, and IO transits up to four times, all in the span of seven ...

Two robotic landers reached the lunar surface, largely intact ... the “Pale Blue Dot” of Earth as seen by Voyager 1 in 1990; Jupiter, Io and Europa seen by Voyager 1 in 1979; Voyager 2 ...

Active galactic nuclei are supermassive black holes at the center of certain galaxies. As matter falls into these black holes ...

You didn't need a telescope to appreciate the cosmos in 2024. With stunning global auroras, prolific meteor showers and a total solar eclipse witnessed by tens of millions of people, space came to ...

A visualization of the glass lava lake spotted on Jupiter's volcanic moon Io ... Patera — a 127-mile-long (200 km) lava lake on Io's surface. The image revealed a raft of cooling lava at the ...