On Dec. 27, 2024, NASA's Juno spacecraft swooped by the volcanic world Io. It witnessed a giant eruption.

Venus, Jupiter, and Mars dominate the sky. Catch your last views of Saturn as early in the month, the Moon passes in front of ...

Currently, it is performing flybys of three of the Galilean moons: Ganymede, Europa, and Io. We've reported on Juno's Io flybys previously. A massive hotspot larger the Earth's Lake Superior can be ...

New research shows that when an asteroid slammed into the moon billions of years ago, it carved out a pair of grand canyons ...

The vast valleys of Vallis Schrödinger and Vallis Planck demonstrate the incredible forces that shaped the face of the Moon.

A New Moon is a common lunar event that happens every 29.5 days. These lunations are part of the synodic month measured from one New Moon to the next. Every zodiac sign has its New Moon moment ...

Sep. 19, 2024 — By staring into the hellish landscape of Jupiter's moon Io -- the most volcanically active location in the solar system -- astronomers have been able to study a fundamental ...

What is the moon phase today? Today, Feb. 3, 2025, the moon is 5 days old, in the waxing crescent phase of its lunar cycle. It is 32% illuminated. Moon phases reveal the passage of time in the ...

The night sky tonight and on any clear night offers an ever-changing display of fascinating objects you can see, from stars and constellations to bright planets, the moon, and sometimes special ...

Japan's private lander HAKUTO-R is cruising toward the Moon and it has sent a striking image of Earth ... a tiny island- is about 2,688 kilometres from Point Nemo. This location is called satellite ...