The Psyche spacecraft is bound for a metal-rich asteroid that it will examine up close starting in 2029. But first, it needs ...

A blurry new photo captured by the Green Bank Telescope in West Virginia shows Artemis II's Orion capsule circling the moon ...

NASA's Juno spacecraft made a close flyby of Jupiter moon lo. See an animation of the images the probe captured created by ...

Scientists say Ganymede’s metallic heart may still be assembling beneath more than 620 miles of ice and water.

Another day, another show in the sky! If you look up after dark on Wednesday, April 22, you’ll catch a charming moment in the cosmos, no telescope required: a glowing waxing crescent moon hanging near ...

If you have binoculars, you may even spot some of Jupiter’s largest moons as tiny pinpoints beside the planet NICHOLAS KAMM/AFP via Getty A waxing crescent moon and Jupiter will appear close together ...

How did Jupiter acquire more large moons than Saturn? This is what a recent study published in Nature Astronomy hopes to address as a team of scientists investigated the reasons behind Jupiter having ...

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The two largest planets in our solar system, Jupiter and Saturn, also have the largest satellite systems, or the most moons. At present, Jupiter's reported moon count stands at more than 100 moons, ...

Jupiter's strong magnetic field formed a disk cavity, trapping multiple large moons. Saturn's weaker field lacked this, leaving it with fewer dominant moons like Titan. (Nanowerk News) The two largest ...

Artist’s impression of the simulations conducted in this research. Jupiter (lower left) has a strong magnetic field which creates a cavity in its circumplanetary disk. Saturn (upper right) lacks a ...