The planet’s rotation fluctuates as it travels around the sun, and measurements suggest we’re losing more than a millisecond ...

Richard Hughes' Sara Moon stepped forward from her debut effort at Windsor to chase home a short-priced favourite at ...

"Eight minutes later, the orbiter started receiving data from the descent probe, which slammed into the top of the Jovian atmosphere at a comet-like speed of 170,000 kilometers per hour," NASA ...

Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer (JUICE) is the first European space mission for the exploration of the Jupiter system including the Galilean moons Callisto, Europa, and Ganymede. In order to enable maximum ...

What color is moonlight typically, and what other colors can moonlight look like from our perspective on Earth?

This gas giant has some really unique features that make it stand out. If you’re curious about space, learning a few things ...

Jupiter isn’t alone in this category; Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune are also gas giants, though Uranus and Neptune are often ...

Taking what it’s learned from the Falcon 9, SpaceX has designed its next-generation and much more powerful Starship rocket to ...

Some objects were placed in space on purpose, symbolic gestures meant to inspire or amuse. Others were lost by accident, ...

Two icy moons of Jupiter, though neighboring and of similar size, exhibit radically different internal structures. A new ...

A little-known fact to the general public is that there's more moving around Jupiter's orbit than just the giant gas planet.

Nearly 400 years ago, Galileo looked at the Pleiades star cluster through his telescope and noticed that the seven or so ...