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 ...

NASA/Jet Propulsion Laboratory-Caltech/Southwest Research Institute (SwRI)/Malin Space Science Systems (MSSS); Image processing: Emma Wälimäki © CC ...

The Moon has always been a plain, grayscale, landscape. Its plains and craters offer some variety, but the lunar surface ...

In the 17th century, astronomers Christiaan Huygens and Giovanni Cassini trained their telescopes on Saturn and uncovered a ...

The James Webb Telescope has revealed fierce auroras, storms, and unchanging sand-like clouds on the rogue planet SIMP-0136.

The entire progression will be observed by the ESA’s orbiters the Mars Express and ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter as well as NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter which will utilize the cutting edge HiRISA ...

NASA is constantly making new discoveries about the universe, and what they found it's located where it should be - in a ...

Plus: Why are hurricanes so powerful? Are winds on other planets like they are on Earth? The answer, my friend, is blowin' in ...

Using NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope, researchers observed auroras warming the rogue planet’s upper atmosphere.

The interstellar object hurtling toward the inner solar system, where Earth is located, is much larger than previously thought, astronomers say.

The bottom line is that the fact that fire is so tightly bound to Earth is a reminder of how special our planet is. Every ...