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(Phys.org)--The renowned Hubble Space Telescope (HST) plays a leading role in uncovering distant locations of the universe, but it could be also a helpful tool for studying nearby objects, like space rocks whizzing throu...

Welcome to Jupiter! NASA's Juno spacecraft is orbiting Jupiter at this moment! "NASA has done it again!" pronounced an elated Scott Bolton, investigator of Juno from Southwest Research Institute in San Antonio, to loud c...

Space Science Image of the Week: The geysers on Enceladus come from a region where the crust might be paper-thin

After an almost five-year journey to the solar system's largest planet, NASA's Juno spacecraft successfully entered Jupiter's orbit during a 35-minute engine burn. Confirmation that the burn had completed was received on...

Rosetta describes the exciting discoveries she made during her second year at Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko, after the comet made its closest approach to the Sun along its orbit.

The red planet could provide insight into how the atmospheres are stripped off of distant, comet-like exoplanets.

A crowdfunded campaign to sell illustrated posters of every item that flew to the moon on Apollo 11 has raised almost 15 times its initial goal, with more than two weeks until the campaign ends.

Thousands of years ago, stone constructions built as tombs may have also been used to observe the night sky and track the movements of the stars.

Could an immersive virtual-reality environment like the fictional Holodeck in "Star Trek" help people tackle global problems like climate change or drug policy?

Just minutes after Juno entered orbit around Jupiter late Monday night (July 4), Google's search page began showcasing a "doodle" celebrating the accomplishment.

The people behind NASA's Juno mission rode a wave of emotions Monday night (July 4) as the spacecraft approached Jupiter and then, after a picture-perfect, 35-minute engine burn, became just the second probe ever to ente...

Braving intense radiation, a NASA spacecraft reached Jupiter on Monday after a five-year voyage to begin exploring the king of the planets.

At 03:53 UTC on July 5th, 2016 (or 11:53 p.m. Eastern US time on July 4th), Jupiter got a new moon. And its name is Juno. At that time, the main engine of the spacecraft cut off, having burned for 35 minutes and two seco...

After an almost five-year journey to the solar system's largest planet, NASA's Juno spacecraft successfully entered Jupiter's orbit during a 35-minute engine burn. Confirmation that the burn had completed was received on...

After a do-or-die engine burn, the second spacecraft ever to orbit Jupiter is preparing to revolutionize our view of the giant planet  --

In this exclusive interview, the project manager of one of Juno's instruments explains how the spacecraft will slow down prior to its insertion into Jupiter's orbit. --

Jupiter watchers have long known that the giant planet's ever-present polar auroras - thousands of times brighter and many times bigger than Earth - are powered by both electrically charged particles from the Sun collidi...

If conditions had been just a little different an eon ago, there might be plentiful life on Venus and none on Earth.

Last night, for the first time in nearly two decades, humanity added a new moon to Jupiter: The spacecraft Juno successfully entered orbit around the giant planet, beginning a nearly two-year-long mission to study Jupite...

An international team of six astronauts from China, Japan, USA, Spain and Russia will descend into the caves of Sardinia, Italy, to explore the depths and train for life in outer space....

Forty years ago a signal sent from Mars led to the opening of the Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum in Washington, DC. Last week, another broadcast from space prompted the debut of the museum's newly-renovated ...

International collaboration finds that two small satellites (Phobos and Deimos) orbiting Mars can also be formed by a giant impact like the origin of our Moon. The research is reported in Nature Geoscience, July 2016....