One night last fall, University of Cincinnati astrophysics graduate Paul Smith waited anxiously for data to start rolling ...

The extended mission will continue until the spacecraft dies. Though Juno will eventually fall toward Jupiter as its ...

NASA's Juno spacecraft captured a photo of Jupiter's moon Thebe.

A bizarre planetary pairing 190 light-years away is challenging everything astronomers thought they knew about how worlds form. A “lonely” hot Jupiter — typically found without nearby companions — is ...

NASA crashed the Galileo spacecraft into Jupiter to save Europa. Discover the impossible secrets revealed during its hellish ...

NASA’s Juno spacecraft has captured an extraordinary image of Thebe, the second-largest of Jupiter’s inner moons, providing ...

To date, humanity has discovered over 6,200 confirmed exoplanets, or planets outside of our solar system, according to NASA's ...

Nasa's James Webb Space Telescope has detected water vapour, carbon dioxide and sulphur dioxide in the atmosphere of a ...

NASA's Juno spacecraft captured this view of Thebe, the second largest of Jupiter's inner moons, during a close pass on May 1, 2026. The spacecraft's Stellar Reference Unit (SRU) captured this image ...

A giant planet was supposed to have the place to itself. Instead, in a star system 190 light-years away, a hot Jupiter shares ...

Volunteers with NASA's Backyard Worlds: Planet 9 project have essentially doubled the known number of brown dwarfs. Roughly ...