NASA's Juno spacecraft has again captured stunning images of Jupiter and its moon Io, providing more insights into the solar ...

Galileo Galilei's telescopic discovery of Jupiter's four moons in 1610 revolutionized astronomy and supported heliocentric ...

Io orbits around Jupiter, the largest planet in our solar system ... mostly solid interior beneath Io’s surface, rather than a global magma ocean — solving a 45-year mystery started by ...

The Red Planet comes closest to Earth, disappears behind the Moon in an occultation, and finally reaches opposition in the ...

Italian astronomer Galileo Galilei peered through his newly improved 20-power homemade telescope at the planet Jupiter. He ...

Researchers have used the James Webb Space Telescope to study Trappist-1 b, revealing it might have a volatile surface and ...

A NASA spacecraft has made history by surviving its closest-ever approach to the Sun during the Parker Solar Probe mission, a project over six years in the making. The spacecraft was out of ...

Planetary occultations involving the Moon are rare astronomical events, especially when they involve Saturn, one of the more ...

Formerly the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope, the observatory was renamed in 2020 to honor Vera Rubin, who died at 88 in 2016 ...

Massive and dense structures have been discovered beneath the surface of Mars, leaving experts intrigued. The first of these ...

"However, the idea of a rocky planet with a heavily weathered surface without an atmosphere ... heat—similar to what we see in Jupiter's moon Io. In addition, inductive heating by the magnetic ...