Earlier this year, astronomers spotted a mysterious interstellar object, dubbed 3I/ATLAS, hurtling through the solar system ...

Skywatchers are in for a two-part cosmic spectacle: a rare Venus-Jupiter pairing followed by the peak of the Perseid meteor ...

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

NASA’s twin Pioneer spacecraft and then two Voyagers swept past Jupiter in the 1970s. The Voyagers provided the first detailed photos of Europa but from quite a distance.

Jupiter and Venus are two of the brightest objects in the night sky. When you know where to look, it is very easy to spot ...

Here's everything to know about NASA's latest findings, announced Tuesday, April 29. More about Io: Jupiter moon of Io is famed for its volcanoes. NASA just spotted the most powerful one yet ...

A NASA spacecraft made its closest-ever approach to Jupiter's moon Io, coming within 930 miles of the "surface of the most volcanic world," and the space agency released new images of the flyby.

(NASA is virtually certain it won’t find fish people, but that hasn’t stopped scientists from dreaming.) Previous missions to Jupiter have given scientists a rough sketch of the moon, but ...

Jupiter's moon Io—a volcano world orbiting the planet once every 42 hours—casts its shadow on the Jovian clouds in this image from NASA's Juno spacecraft.

The primary goal of the Juno spacecraft, which arrived at Jupiter in 2016, is to help scientists understand how Jupiter formed and evolved, according to NASA. Jupiter is the largest planet of our ...

According to NASA, the Juno mission spacecraft began its five-year journey to explore Jupiter in August 2011 and first arrived on the planet in July 2016. Now in its extended mission, the ...

On Sept. 7, 2023, NASA’s Juno mission captured an image of an area in one of Jupiter’s northern regions called Jet N7, according to NASA.