On Dec. 27, 2024, NASA's Juno spacecraft swooped by the volcanic world Io. It witnessed a giant eruption.

Four planets will be widely visible to the naked eye through part of February, but calling them a 'planetary alignment' may ...

The terrestrial planets are the four innermost planets in the solar system. None of the terrestrial planets have rings ... These special opportunities and challenges are further discussed in later ...

There are 20 amino acids that create the proteins required for life on our planet — and scientists have now found exactly 14 ...

15, 2025 — New observational data and simulation models have confirmed a new type of planet unlike anything found in the Solar System ... planet hurtling through space. One of these chunks ...

The International Space Station is captured ... Credit: Don Pettit / NASA Comets are enormous balls of ice, dust, and rock that formed in the outer solar system, left over from the early days ...

Project scientist Jason Dworkin at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center reflected ... and other planets by asteroids during the early solar system, said Sara Russell, a cosmic mineralogist.

Space can be a wondrous place, and we've got the pictures to prove ... The dense areas of gas shields the area behind them from solar wind, leading to the formation of the towering pillars ...

OSIRIS-REx project scientist at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center. Despite its history of water interaction, Bennu remains a chemically primitive asteroid. Its elemental composition closely resembles ...

These warning signs could help NASA and other stakeholders protect astronauts as well as technology both in space and ... accompanies solar flares. For example, an automated system could look ...

In August 2006, the International Astronomical Union made the controversial, but correct, decision to demote Pluto from its ...

15, 2025 — New observational data and simulation models have confirmed a new type of planet unlike anything found in the Solar System ... of star that NASA's Hubble Space Telescope explored ...