The University of Iowa is the lead institution on a near-$166-million robotic space mission due for launch next year. Twin ...
Discover more about the Sun's solar cycle and how it impacts us here on Earth, from increased auroras to overwhelmed power ...
The spacecraft Juno just finished its 66th trip around Jupiter, sending back some of the highest-resolution images we’ve seen ...
NEW YORK (AP) — Volcanoes were erupting on the mysterious far side of the moon billions of years ago just like on the side that we can see, new research confirms. Researchers analyzed lunar soil ...
The first lunar samples from the moon’s far side differ in some interesting ways from those collected from the near side, ...
(CNN) - New spectacular images of Jupiter are being shared for the first time. A bevy of “mind-blowing” images are shedding new light on the solar system’s biggest planet and doing it in the most ...
The astronaut appeared to be in good health and spirits following photos of her that recently sparked health scare rumors.
Voyager 2's 1986 flyby of Uranus, the main source of our knowledge of the icy planet, could have come at the same time as a ...
When it comes to exploring space, few things have done it better or longer than the Voyager 1 spacecraft, and it isn’t done ...
NASA Solar Dynamics Observatory captured a M7.9-class solar flare. See footage of the blast in multiple wavelengths. Credit: ...
The roughly six-hour flyby in 1986 revealed Uranus' protective magnetic field was strangely empty. Now, researchers say that ...
When Voyager 2 performed the first and only close flyby of Uranus in 1986, scientists were left scratching their heads. Now, ...