Using data collected by NASA's Juno spacecraft as it flew past Jupiter's highly volcanic moon Io in late 2023 and again in ...

With a sun more than 4.5 billion years old, our solar system is considered "middle-aged," and the pictures of what it might ...

Ceres is a dwarf planet in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter. It's the largest object in the asteroid belt and the closest dwarf planet to Earth.

Another finding was how dramatically the planets varied in brightness over just three years. The team discovered that PDS 70 ...

Lucy is preparing for a close encounter with the asteroid Donaldjohanson, a key milestone before its groundbreaking journey ...

About 650 light-years from here, in the constellation Aquarius, lies the planetary nebula Caldwell 63, commonly known as the ...

Astronomers have captured the sharpest-ever images of infant planets forming around a distant star, revealing unexpected ...

Astronomers used the powerful James Webb Space Telescope to sleuth out some of these objects, called brown dwarfs, in a vibrant star-forming region of our galaxy called the Flame Nebula. Brown dwarfs ...

The Jupiter image is an infrared color composite taken by the spacecraft’s near-infrared imaging spectrometer. Jupiter as seen from above its north pole by Pioneer 11 in 1974. The solar system's ...

According to NASA, multi-planet lineups are visible "every few years," but a seven-planet alignment is particularly uncommon, as each planet's orbit varies, with some moving more quickly and Mercury, ...

When we have five or more planets filing into a small sky area, an alignment is upgraded to parade status. Parade is not an ...

The Moon Europa Orbiting the Gas Giant Planet of Jupiter. Contains imagery furnished by NASA. Jupiter is Spinning in Outer Space with Stars at Black Background in 4K Resolution Jupiter is spinning in ...