Skywatchers on Thursday evening, Feb. 6, will notice an eye-catching pairing-off between two of the brightest objects in the ...

NASA officials said what Juno spotted was 'the most powerful volcanic event ever recorded on the most volcanic world in our ...

This week, NASA released the first image from the Europa Clipper spacecraft's voyage. The image is a mosaic of a star field, created from three shots the solar-powered orbiter captured in December of ...

Venus and the planet Jupiter in quick succession. They are called Galilean moons in light of his discovery. Galileo realised that there are satellites which, like Earth's moon, orbit another planet in ...

So exactly how many solar system moons have we found ... Mercury and Venus, have no true moons because of their proximity to the giant ball of gas, which would have ripped away any potential ...

That’s because Jupiter’s four major moons, often called Galilean satellites, passed between the planet and the Sun quite often. The United States will experience a total solar eclipse in a few ...

The finding could change the way astronomers understand moons dominated by subsurface global oceans in our solar system, such as Jupiter’s ... squeezing a rubber ball, which warms up the moon.

It has a surface temperature of over 470°C. Only two of the terrestrial planets have moons orbiting them: Jupiter is the largest planet in the solar system and has 79 moons. The four largest ...