JWST has confirmed Pluto’s bizarre atmospheric behavior and its ghostly interaction with Charon. These findings could reshape ...

If you looked at the churning clouds near Jupiter’s pole, they appear like ocean currents on Earth — as if you’re looking at ...

As a condition of using these data, you must cite the use of this data set. Such a practice gives credit to data set producers and advances principles of transparency and reproducibility. Other ...

The moon's surface is littered with pits or skylights like this one called, Marius Hill (shown in three images above under different sun exposures). Temperatures within these pits, which may lead ...

In about 4.5 billion years, the Sun will enter its red giant phase, swallowing Mercury and Venus and rendering Earth ...

Today: Right after sunset, the largest and smallest planets are near neighbors in the sky. Jupiter, the brighter of the two, is a little below and to the left of Mercury, just above the ...

On June 5, a lander called Resilience was supposed to touch down in the Mare Frigoris region of the Moon, delivering ... measure the distance to the lunar surface. According to ispace, it seems ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. A private lunar lander from Japan fell silent ...

But as it turns out, getting low-cost spacecraft to the moon's surface is extremely difficult. Ispace tried and failed in 2023 when its first lander ran out of propellant nearing the surface ...

Resilience, a lunar lander produced by the Japanese aerospace firm Ispace, has crashed into the Moon's surface. The lander was Ispace's second failed attempt at placing a spacecraft on the Moon ...

Resilience holds a rover with a shovel to gather lunar dirt as well as a Swedish artist's toy-size red house that will be lowered onto the moon's dusty surface. Long the province of governments ...