What type of lander could touch down on Jupiter's volcanic moon, Io? This is what a recent paper presented at the AIAA 2025 Regional Student Conference hopes to address as a team of student engineers ...
China's Chang'e 6 mission returned the first-ever far-side lunar samples, revealing new insights into the moon's interior. Lunar samples reveal the far side of the moon, hidden from Earth's view, may ...
Peaking on October 21, the Orionids promise about 20 meteors per hour. This shower occurs as Earth passes through debris from Halley's Comet, offering a spectacular display. For the best viewing ...
In the 17th century, astronomers Christiaan Huygens and Giovanni Cassini trained their telescopes on Saturn and uncovered a startling truth: the planet's luminous bands were not solid appendages, but ...
During its close flyby of Jupiter's moon Io on December 30, 2023, NASA's Juno spacecraft captured some of the most detailed imagery ever of Io's volcanic surface. In this image, taken by the JunoCam ...