NASA scientists have sought to understand planet Jupiter, the gas giant whose mass is more than the rest of the planets in ...

Discovered by Galileo in 1610, Io has since become one of the most fascinating objects in planetary science. Orbiting just 350,000 km above Jupiter, Io experiences gravitational forces 300% stronger ...

The 3D picture of Jupiter's troposphere shows that the majority ... which is really odd," said de Pater, who discovered 10 years ago that ammonia was depleted down to about 50 km.

While searching for a hypothetical planet at the far edges of our solar system known as Planet Nine or Planet X, a team of astronomers discovered 12 new moons around Jupiter. That brings the total ...

Travis Conway began leading his aunt Edna Runner's after-school center shortly before she died in 2023. His mission? Honor ...

It's named for the paleontologist who discovered the fossil Lucy 50 years ago in Ethiopia.The spacecraft was launched in 2021 to study the unexplored so-called Trojan asteroids out near Jupiter.