On Sept. 21, 2003, NASA's Galileo mission to Jupiter and its moons came to an end. After 14 years of exploration, the Galileo spacecraft intentionally fell into Jupiter and disintegrated in the planet ...

What type of lander could touch down on Jupiter's volcanic moon, Io? This is what a recent paper presented at the AIAA 2025 Regional Student Conference hopes to address as a team of student engineers ...

The Moon has always been a plain, grayscale, landscape. Its plains and craters offer some variety, but the lunar surface ...

India plans "bodyguard satellites" to protect its fleet from collisions, cyberattacks, and geopolitical threats in space.

I/ATLAS is only the third comet ever witnessed from outside our Solar System and new imagery could teach us so much about ...

The bottom line is that the fact that fire is so tightly bound to Earth is a reminder of how special our planet is. Every ...

A private U.S. lander carried NASA's experiments to the Moon and has opened new doors for exploration. Could this be the future of space travel?

At the turn of the 21 st century, astrophysicists theorized that the Sun was headed toward a deep solar minimum, but a new ...

For centuries, scientific progress has depended on more precise tools for measuring the world around us. Galileo’s telescope ...

If 3I/ATLAS is a naturally occurring comet, its close approach to the Sun could cause it to break apart into fragments. Comets commonly disintegrate due to solar heating, gravitational tidal forces, ...

Saturn’s moon Enceladus continuously ejects vast quantities of ice particles into space, originating from its subsurface ocean. Researchers at the ...

Whether an asteroid is spinning neatly on its axis or tumbling chaotically, and how fast it is doing so, has been shown to be dependent on how ...