Planetary science is in limbo during the government shutdown — things like analyzing asteroids, studying the magnetosphere of Jupiter, or better understanding Mars so that humans might one day visit.

Jupiter-like planet 8 UMi b, named Halla, orbits its host red giant star Baekdu closely. The red giant's merger with a white ...

Jupiter's moon Io stands alone among the solar system's moons. It has more than 400 active volcanoes, and its surface is home ...

Marlins first baseman Troy Johnston, a long-time minor leaguer who made a splash after a July call-up, was claimed off waivers by Colorado on Wednesday, an unfortunate byproduct of the Marlins needing ...

Having made its closest approach to the sun on Wednesday October 29, comet 3I/ATLAS will soon be visible from Earth ...

Hubble Space Telescope imagery created an HD look at the gas giant planet Jupiter. Credit: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center ...

In the communications, NASA managers wrote that equipment not moved in time — including one-of-a-kind hardware — could be thrown away or donated. In a statement, a NASA spokesperson said the building ...

How do we know the speed of light – and why does it have a speed limit at all? Leah Crane explores the history of one of the ...

Trapped in a gravitational push and pull between Jupiter and other Jovian moons, Io is constantly being stretched and ...

Turn a telescope to the eastern sky in the hours following midnight on Nov. 5 to see two colossal shadows darken the cloud tops of the gas giant Jupiter as the Galilean moons Io and Europa pass ...

The house that Jupiter occupies in our astrological natal chart represents our connection to expansion, luck, and our highest ...