NASA's Juno spacecraft has discovered a giant volcanic hot spot on the surface of Jupiter's hellish moon Io. The eruptions in ...

A new analysis suggests that Pluto used its gravity to entice Charon into this ... a whirling pair — a mechanism dubbed ‘kiss-and-capture’. Previously, scientists thought that the binary ...

The above image shows a 20-meter-long chunk of frozen carbon dioxide falling off a cliff. Rising temperatures during the ...

NASA’s Europa Clipper is well on its way to Jupiter’s icy moon, Europa, set to arrive in 2030. While its science instruments ...

This week, NASA released the first image from the Europa Clipper spacecraft's voyage. The image is a mosaic of a star field, created from three shots the solar-powered orbiter captured in December of ...

Firefly's "Blue Moon" and ispace's "Resilience" are the latest in an ongoing push to gain private-sector experience exploring the moon.

New research from the University of Arizona details a “kiss and capture” mechanism the dwarf planet used to keep its gigantic moon orbiting ... can interact through gravity and physical ...

Europa Clipper - one of the most advanced spacecraft ever sent to another planet - aims to explore Jupiter's icy moon ...

NASA's Juno spacecraft has spotted the most powerful volcanic eruption ever seen on the solar system's most volcanic body, the Jovian moon Io.

At 3,476 kilometres in diameter, our moon is about one quarter ... captured by their mutual gravity. This relatively gentle kiss and capture process allows both objects to retain their original ...

With no way to simulate dust in lunar gravity on Earth ... its 360-degree camera to capture a phenomenon observed by Gene Cernan during the end of his time on the moon on Apollo 17, wherein ...