The odds are that life is out there – but rather than little green men, it may look more like hydrothermal vent tubeworms ...

Since the 1990s, astronomers have found a handful of other dwarf planets in the belt, such as Eris and Sedna, along with ...

NASA shared that with a more precise shape, it will help astronomers understand data from planets seen passing in front of ...

Meso Scale Diagnostics, a bioscience company that helped develop the COVID-19 vaccine, will build a medical-device ...

Updated measurements from NASA’s Juno spacecraft could help researchers better understand the planet's mysterious interior, ...

Jupiter, the largest planet in the solar system, is slightly smaller and flatter than scientists had believed for the past 50 years, according to a breakthrough discovery by Israeli researchers.

The solar system’s most giant planet is slightly less of a giant than scientists once thought. Jupiter, a world that is so huge that it could hold 1,000 Earths, is eight kilometers narrower in width ...

Scientists are using radar to study damaged ice both in Antarctica and, with the help of a NASA spacecraft, on Jupiter’s ocean moon of Europa. By Raymond Zhong Reporting from the icebreaker Araon in ...

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Over the years, passing spacecraft have observed mystifying weather patterns at the poles of Jupiter and Saturn. The two planets host very different types of polar vortices, which are huge atmospheric ...

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Jupiter is one of the brightest celestial bodies in the night sky, visible almost the entire year, only losing some visibility when the sun brightness gets in the way of our vantage point. But now the ...