Comet 311P/PANSTARRS in the solar system's main "asteroid belt" between Mars and Jupiter. The probe won’t gather samples from the comet, but will instead orbit and analyze its composition.

The Tianwen-2 mission by China targets asteroid 2016 HO3 to gather samples, with plans for future missions to Mars and ...

NASA's Juno spacecraft made a close flyby of Jupiter moon lo. See an animation of the images the probe captured created by ...

The nights surrounding June 7 will see Jupiter and Mercury crowd together close to the horizon in the northwestern sky.

"The President's Fiscal Year 2026 Budget Request for NASA reflects the Trump-Vance Administration's commitment to ...

NASA's Europa Clipper spacecraft, en route to Jupiter's icy ocean moon Europa, recently captured a ghostly infrared portrait of Mars — a cosmic photo op that helped scientists fine-tune an ...

China's space agency has launched a spacecraft that promises to return samples from a pair of asteroids near Mars.

Jupiter was about twice its current radius and possessed a magnetic field roughly 50 times stronger than today around 3.8 million years after the solar system's first solids formed.

SEE ALSO: Stunning video reveals Jupiter's roiling auroras. See it now. A predecessor to the lost Soviet spacecraft, either the Venera 5 or Venera 6 capsule, is being prepared for launch in ...

The Moon passes 5° north of Jupiter at 9 A.M. EDT. Just six percent illuminated by this evening, you can try to spot the young crescent Moon hanging above the gas giant in the western sky after ...

In a nail-biting mission to secure Voyager 1 before the only antenna that can send commands to the spacecraft goes offline ... 2 launched in 1977 to study Jupiter and Saturn as well as examine ...