It won't land, but the robotic spacecraft will fly as close as 16 miles to the moon's frozen surface to probe oceans of ...

It was taken in the infrared wavelength range of 10.8 microns, which is sensitive to Jupiter's atmospheric temperatures in the 300 to 600 millibar pressure range. That pressure range is close to ...

He believes that the conditions of cooling and condensation are now going on in Jupiter, and that Saturn is so hot that no water rests upon its bosom, but surrounds it in vapor, of which her rings ...

The cool temperatures have other important consequences ... the principal investigator for these MIRI observations of Jupiter ...

The goal for Europa Clipper, which will reach Jupiter's orbit in 2030, is to see if life is possible on Jupiter's moon Europa ...

All of that, plus fuel, means the spacecraft tips the scales at approximately 13,000 lbs., which requires a bruiser of a ...

New research on WASP-107b reveals how strange this planet's atmosphere is, experiencing perpetual night on one side ...

But Mars and Earth are not the only places in the solar system that either have, or have had, water. On October 13th, if all ...

NASA's Europa Clipper mission aims to investigate the potential for life on Jupiter's moon, Europa. The spacecraft, equipped ...

We often talk about Jupiter’s Great Red Spot quite candidly but forget that hurricanes can be devastating, destructive forces ...

More than a decade in development, the Europa Clipper is set to launch within the month for the first detailed science investigation of an alien ocean.

In recent years, the number of known extrasolar planets (aka. exoplanets) has grown exponentially. To date, 5,799 exoplanets ...