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

NASA launched the Ranger 6 spacecraft on a mission to obtain the first-ever close-up images of the surface of the moon. The spacecraft carried six television cameras to transmit videos and images of ...

By combining data from NASA’s IRAS and NuSTAR telescopes, scientists have uncovered more hidden supermassive black holes than earlier estimates suggested. Their findings indicate that over a third of ...

YR4 might force NASA to plan the first-ever space mission to push an asteroid away from Earth. Most likely, though, it's a ...

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NASA’s Juno mission found Io’s biggest volcanic eruption ever. The explosion was stronger than all Earth’s power plants ...

A high-tech sensor designed and built at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) has now traveled farther than 250 ...

Loki Patera is 202 kilometres (126 mi) in diameter, covers 20,000 sq km (7,700 sq mi), and was the largest volcanic feature found on Io until these new observations revealed the hot spot in the south ...

Since completing its primary science objectives in orbit of Jupiter, Juno has been conducting flybys of the Jovian moons Io, Europa, Ganymede, and Callisto. The spacecraft completed two very close ...

Short for Spectro-Photometer for the History of the Universe, Epoch of Reionization and Ices Explorer, SPHEREx will create a ...

The building blocks of life could have been delivered to Ceres by one or more space rocks from the outer asteroid belt.

Black holes that have been obscured by clouds of dust still emit infrared light, enabling astronomers to spot them for the ...