But in the grand scheme of the solar system, Earth's Moon isn't as big as you might think. Oberon is Uranus’s second-largest ...

Dust off your old telescope on a clear night and look up. If you find Jupiter, you’ll likely see four small dots to the side ...

Blue Ghost is aiming to become the second private lander to successfully soft-land on the moon, just over a year after ...

Research Fellow Dr. Babak Bakhit has encountered one of his most challenging projects to date—contributing to the European ...

Callisto, one of Jupiter’s largest moons, looks like a boring, crater-filled world. It doesn’t seem to have much going on ...

From the Giant Red Spot to its large ocean-bearing moons, we know a lot about Jupiter already, but there's still a lot more to discover. Launched in April 2023 and expected to reach Jupiter by ...

In the 1990s, however, NASA's Galileo spacecraft captured magnetic measurements near Callisto that suggested that its ice shell surface—much like that of Europa, another moon of Jupiter—may ...

The presence of an ocean leaves open the possibility that it could host life. Another nearby moon, Europa, is also considered ...

Astronomers are using the NASA's Hubble Telescope to study auroras — stunning light shows in a planet’s atmosphere — on the poles of the largest planet in the solar system, Jupiter. This animation ...

Credit: NASA / JPL / DLR A moon of Jupiter about the size of Mercury likely ... but a layer of rocks more than 150 miles beneath the surface. Both are key conditions known for leading to life ...

The Blue Ghost Lander built by Firefly Aerospace successfully entered the lunar orbit last week and has sent stunning first ...

Our Solar System, like a sneaky little hobbit, seems to have stuffed its pockets full of hidden oceans. Jupiter, Saturn, ...