Highlights include a morning meetup between Jupiter and Venus, a chance to see the Perseid meteor shower, and a window into ...

Instead, scientists are looking into existing spacecraft already in orbit around other planets. Harvard Professor Avi Loeb ...

The Hubble Space Telescope captured imagery of Jupiter and its Great Red Spot in 2023 and 2024. Credit: NASA, ESA, J.

The predawn hours of Aug. 8 present a perfect opportunity to see Jupiter's four largest moons line up next to the "King of the Planets" as it voyages through the stars of the constellation Gemini.

A massive, fast-orbiting planet is inching closer to its star, and scientists now have direct evidence of its impending ...

Jupiter and Venus, the two brightest planets in our solar system, should be widely visible for much of August in Florida and ...

American space agency NASA says it used the gravity assist maneuver the Europa Clipper conducted back in March to test the ...

Launched in October 2024, Europa Clipper is on a 1.8-billion-mile (2.9-billion-kilometer) journey to study Jupiter and its moons. On March 1, it flew within 550 miles (884 kilometers) of Mars' surface ...

NASA's Europa Clipper nailed a major radar test during a Mars flyby, proving it’s ready to peer into Europa’s mysterious icy shell and search for underground oceans.

Built by Lockheed Martin and operated by NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Juno launched from Cape Canaveral on Aug. 5, 2011, ...

Millions of kilometres from Earth, orbiting the giant Jupiter, NASA's Juno spacecraft faced a serious problem. One of its ...