NASA’s Juno spacecraft captured a rare dark-rayed crater on Ganymede, offering fresh clues about the moon’s icy surface, ...

Night-side flashes on Jupiter are giving planetary scientists a rare look at how this giant world behaves when it turns away ...

If we find technological satellites of Jupiter that we did not send, it would imply that Jupiter is of interest to an ...

NASA officials dismissed theories that the interstellar 3I/ATLAS could be an alien spaceship while dropping new photos of the ...

NASA's Juno mission has found that Jupiter's Great Red Spot is just the beginning, revealing a polar vortex system of perfectly geometric cyclones and 600 km/h winds that operate under physics we ...

The probe flew 3,438 kilometres above Earth during its swing. It moved closer than several high-orbit satellites circling the ...

Interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS got an accuracy boost thanks to a Mars orbiter, giving scientists insights and stronger planetary ...

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All good things must come to an end, and that is even true for planets. Recent research has uncovered what appears to be the grizzly death of an exoplanet in the nearby Helix Nebula, which seems to ...

When comet 3I/ATLAS was first spotted streaking across the sky in July 2025, it looked like another fleeting astronomical ...

As a planet that's over 1,300 times larger than the Earth, Jupiter was dubbed King of the Planets for a reason. Recurring extraordinary phenomena in its atmosphere are also testimonies that it is ...

Just 4.3 light years from Earth lies a star called Alpha Centauri A, which is famous for being the nearest star that resembles our own Sun. In the popular Avatar movies, this star's system is home to ...