Nasa’s mission to a Galilean moon of Jupiter that’s encrusted in a thick shell of ice will let us know if its bulky ocean has ...

Space agencies have been busy with three major launch milestones occurring in the space of a week. Meanwhile, the sun is at ...

By analyzing the movements of a mysterious cloud of sodium moving around the planet WASP-49 b, the team was able to construct ...

2 new papers trace the origin of most meteorites to just a handful of asteroid breakup events – and possibly even individual ...

Europa Clipper is the first mission designed to conduct a detailed study of Jupiter's moon Europa. It will travel about 2.9 ...

In 1995, Caltech researchers at the Institute’s Palomar Observatory first observed what appeared to be a brown dwarf orbiting Gliese 229 – a red dwarf star located about 19 light-years from Earth.

NASA's Europa Clipper launches toward Jupiter's moon, Europa, on a mission to explore its icy surface and potential for life.

Scientists leading the DAVINCI mission started by using modern data-analysis techniques to pore over decades-old data from previous Venus missions. Their goal is to arrive at our ...

An international team of astronomers has figured out that a famous brown dwarf is actually a pair of tight-knit brown dwarfs, weighing about 38 and 34 times the mass of Jupiter, that whip around each ...

When astronauts travel back to the moon from Florida’s Space Coast they could be wearing Prada spacesuits. A team of 10 ...

MILAN — After collecting the first-ever samples from the far side of the moon, China is now setting its sights on even more distant destinations — Mars, asteroids and Jupiter, positioning itself as a ...

NASA has successfully launched the Europa Clipper, an unmanned interplanetary spacecraft, on a mission to study the massive ...