Jupiter, the giant of our Solar System, remains one of the most fascinating and mysterious planets to explore. With its ...

ESA's Mars Express orbiter captured footage of the Mars' moon Deimos pass in front of Ganymede, Europa, Jupiter, Io and ...

NASA spotted something moving in one of the moons of Jupiter. Some natural satellites have similar structures to the Earth, ...

Before defining what a light-year is, we should define what a light-year is not: It is not a measure of time, but rather a ...

NASA launched New Horizons to explore Pluto. In 2019, it visited the furthest object in the Solar System we have seen up close.

Lake Effect astronomy contributor Jean Creighton shares some myths behind some of our solar system’s most famous moons and ...

Volcanic planets with static crusts, called Ignan Earths, can maintain liquid oceans and temperate climates favorable to life.

We measure the extremely long distances between things in space by light years. A light year is the distance that light travels in one Earth year. Light travels at about 300,000 kilometres per second.

"It is incredible that modern telescopic surveys have the ability to detect such small objects up to millions of kilometers ...

With a $621,000 award from NASA, University of Massachusetts Amherst microbiologist James Holden will dedicate the next three years to “predicting” the nature of life on Europa.

Astronomers have uncovered a massive, hidden exoplanet nestled in the dusty disc of a young star—MP Mus—by combining ...

From the discovery of gravity to the first mission to defend Earth from an asteroid, here are the most important physics ...