New measurements have revealed that Jupiter — the largest planet in our solar system — is actually smaller and more flattened ...

Astronomers studying an oddball brown dwarf called “The Accident” have finally spotted silane, a long-predicted silicon ...

The House committee met to discuss the commerce, justice, and science budget bill, which allocates funding to federal ...

In a landmark observation by a team of international researchers, NASA's Juno spacecraft has, for the first time, clearly ...

NASA’s Juno spacecraft has successfully found and characterised the auroral “footprints” of Jupiter’s moon Callisto for the first time. This discovery completes ...

Jupiter is a gas giant and doesn’t have a solid outer surface like Earth. But astronomers can still assess its shape by ...

Although the Juno mission was expected to last only a few years, the spacecraft is still going strong despite operating in ...

NASA’s Juno orbiter spacecraft reached Jupiter in 2016, five years after it launched from Earth. The craft was sent to the gas giant to explore Jupiter’s origins, evolution, clouds and several moons.

Jupiter will make its closest approach to Earth in 59 years on Monday, according to NASA. The largest planet in our solar system, the gas giant will be at opposition, meaning Earth is directly between ...

NASA's Voyager 1 launched 48 years ago in September 1977 on a decades-spanning journey to study the cosmos and search for ...