With China's advancing deep space exploration capabilities and critical progress in space-based nuclear power technology, the nation is basically ready to conduct orbital and close-in missions to ice ...

SWRI experiments could explain puzzling levels of equatorial hydrogen peroxide on Saturn's moon Europa detected by the JWST.

The solar wind plasma goes from moving at about 400 kilometers per second (900,000 miles per hour) to being diverted and ...

Recent observations of Jupiter's powerful magnetic field by NASA's Juno spacecraft have uncovered a never-before-documented ...

Mission scientists "waited with bated breath" to see if their last-minute operation to save a spacecraft's camera hundreds of millions of miles away had worked.

In fact, American astronomer Scott S. Sheppard has found over 60 moons circling Jupiter. Unless there are a lot more moons ...

From Roman augurs to satellite tech, Italy has shaped meteorology for over 2,000 years—mixing tradition, invention, and scientific progress ...

The Southwest Research Institute-led mission team of NASA’s Jupiter-orbiting Juno spacecraft executed a deep-space move in December 2023 to repair its JunoCam imager to capture photos of the Jovian ...

Harmful cuts” jeopardize the agency’s mission, more than 280 current and former personnel contend in a scathing dissent.

Similar deep-sea volcanoes found on Earth support microbial life that lives inside solid rock without sunlight and oxygen. Some of these microbes, called thermophiles, live at temperatures hot enough ...

What happens when matter is squeezed so harshly that the rules of chemistry and physics seem to collapse? Deep below the biggest planet in our solar system, Jupiter, hydrogen the most primitive and ...

The museum, which houses about 115,000 fossils in its collection, has now placed the ornithopod vertebra on public display.