The study by Konstantin Batygin of Caltech and Fred Adams of the University of Michigan pulls off a rare feat in planetary ...

China's ambitious Tianwen-2 mission will soon be heading to two extremely different space rocks, and should provide vital ...

Today, it’s believed that Jupiter and Saturn, the largest planets, were the first to fully form, both within a few million ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Jupiter’s dazzling auroras are hundreds of times brighter than those seen on Earth, new images from the James Webb Space Telescope reveal.

the Shoemaker-Levy 9 comet train that impacted Jupiter in 1994. An exponentially decaying function was used to ensure that the breakup of all the comet's material and its kinetic energy occurs in ...

Comets are notoriously unpredictable ... between the orbits of Jupiter and Saturn. It wouldn’t reach perihelion — its closest point to the Sun — until Sept. 27, 2024. But immediately ...

The success of China's Tianwen-1, which sent the Zhurong rover to Mars, paved the way for Tianwen-2 and future missions, such ...

The Southwest Research Institute-led Ultraviolet Spectrograph (UVS) aboard NASA's Europa Clipper spacecraft has successfully ...

What happens when a comet collides with a gas giant? In July 1994, Shoemaker-Levy 9 slammed into Jupiter in a spectacular series of 21 explosions, creating fireballs bigger than Earth itself. This was ...

NASA believes that the month of May brings visibility to four planets, a new star from a nova, a chance of meteor showers and ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Jupiter’s dazzling auroras are hundreds ... debris of Halley’s comet Soviet-era spacecraft is set to plunge to Earth a half-century after its failed launch to Venus NASA ...

Over at the Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center in the Shanxi Province, a CZ-6A launched Yaogan 40 Group 02 into polar orbit on ...