This image shows Jupiter's moon Ganymede captured by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope in 1996. Situated more than 600 ...

Io is an incredibly active and extreme place, with glistening lava lakes and volcanic eruptions shooting sulfur and magma to huge heights.

Nasa says there is a small chance a recently spotted asteroid could collide with the Moon. Studying it can inform our understanding of the Earth's past and our future.

Scientists now believe that solar bursts hit the largest planet of our solar system two to three times a month.

A solar wind event from 2017 that hit Jupiter and compressed its magnetosphere created a hot region spanning half Jupiter's circumference.

This colorful image of the Helix nebula may mirror what someday could become of our sun and our home planet. Released on ...

How can Uranus be used to indirectly study its moons and identify if they possess subsurface oceans? This is what a recent ...

The next year of science on the James Webb Space Telescope has been announced amid mounting budgetary uncertainty that could ...

There are plenty of planets to spot during April, too. Mars, for example, will be high overhead in the south each evening. You can identify it by its salmon-pink color, and when you do, ponder for a ...

NASA's Voyager probes passed through Jupiter's system and snapped pictures of its largest moons, also known as the Galilean ...

What can a sample return mission from Jupiter's volcanic moon, Io, teach scientists about planetary and satellite (moon) ...

Scientists are using an array of instruments to detect other planets, some of which may harbor life—and others that most ...