On July 6, 1938, an American astronomer named Seth Barnes Nicholson discovered Jupiter's moon Lysithea. Nicholson spotted ...

ESA’s Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer (JUICE) that was launched in 2023 will take about 8 years to arrive at the jovian system ...

The Space Act, which would apply to local and foreign companies, aims to simplify procedures, protect assets in orbit, level ...

Exoplanet HIP 67522 b, fluffed up to the size of Jupiter, circles so close to its star that it’s triggering violent flares — ...

In April, scientists announced that they had used NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope to find a potential signature of alien life in the glow of a distant planet. Other scientists were quick to ...

Orbiting its star in an elliptical path at less than half the distance between Earth and the Sun, this exoplanet offers a ...

Long theorized but never observed, the first known “planet with a death wish” is described by Ilin and her colleagues in a ...

NASA launches satellite to in­ves­tigate Europa, Jupiter’s 'mys­te­rious moon' BY Anthony Leone Brevard County UPDATED 12:37 PM ET Oct. 14, 2024 ...

NASA's exoplanet-hunting spacecraft, aided by citizen scientists, has discovered a new long-period gas giant exoplanet, ...

The clingy planet orbits so close to its star, it triggers powerful explosions of radiation that eat away at its atmosphere.

Stars often whip their planets with solar winds and radiation, pull them ever closer with gravity and sear them with heat.

Alejandro Parra Pintado has travelled to Oman ahead of seeing the satellite he helped to build launch into space A student ...