Kat Troche of the Astronomical Society of the PacificJupiter is our solar system's undisputed king of the planets! Jupiter is ...

Learn how you can see bright Jupiter from Earth, helped by its massive size and banded, reflective cloud tops, in December's ...

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While NASA's NEOWISE telescope ended its journey through space on Nov. 1, 2024, the team at IPAC, a science center at Caltech ...

Adam Carlson caught a fine photo of October’s comet, the Tsuchinshan-Atlas, named for the Chinese and South African observatories that first spotted it.

We're calling on the government to address the problems in our crumbling criminal justice system by adopting our policy recommendations. Due to many years of underinvestment our criminal justice ...

Earth’s celestial companion is leaving. Well, not its natural satellite, but a temporary mini-moon captured by Earth’s gravity is escaping its orbit. This mini-moon is actually a harmless asteroid ...

Philae's historic landing on Comet 67P in 2014 provided crucial data on the comet's surface and internal composition, despite technical setbacks. The mission revealed organic molecules and temperature ...

Magnetism itself may have given our solar system the architecture needed for habitability. A team at the University of Oxford ...

I enjoy marking day’s end, beginning of nighttime, with a glance to the dazzling white Evening Star low in the ...

With NASA’s fleet of heliophysics spacecraft, scientists monitor our Sun and investigate its influences throughout the solar ...

Chiefly, the finding could help explain why Pluto, the largest known object in the Kuiper Belt — a vast region of icy bodies ...