Jupiter’s moons are among the most fascinating worlds in the solar system, but reaching them is a monumental challenge. This ...

NASA’s exploration of Jupiter’s moon Io revealed a world unlike any other. Beneath its fractured surface lies the most volcanically active body in the solar system — a place where molten lava erupts ...

The spacecraft had run into some trouble deploying a 52-foot-long antenna, but is now fully primed and ready as it continues along its eight-year journey. Reading time 2 minutes It’s been six weeks ...

A global color mosaic shows Neptune’s largest moon, Triton, from images taken by the Voyager 2 spacecraft in August 1989. HELSINKI — China is charting a long-term deep space strategy centered on ...

Jupiter, the fifth planet from the Sun – The Majestic Planet, with its massive size, swirling multi-colored clouds, and giant red spot, it’s hard not to gaze at it in wonder and amazement and ask how ...

A European spacecraft zipped by both Earth and the Moon last week. In the early 2030s, the Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer (JUICE) mission will be the first European probe to orbit Jupiter. But first, it ...

Space exploration is about to enter a new era later this year, as American space agency NASA is getting ready to launch perhaps its most ambitious alien-life-hunting mission ever. Centered around a ...