The team still can't confidently rule out the existence of Europa's water vapor, especially as similar plumes have been more ...

Jupiter’s icy moons may have been seeded with the chemical ingredients for life from the very beginning. An international team of scientists modeled how complex organic molecules—essential building ...

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Venus, now an "evening star," remains the brightest object in the sky after the moon, while Jupiter shines higher above it ...

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When you think of volcanoes, you might think of Hawaii or Italy... but how about orbiting Jupiter? Dan Smith shows how we ...

As NASA's Juno flew around Jupiter last week, the spacecraft snapped a photo of an object before it could make a clean getaway. That clunky, bumpy thing at the far right edge of the frame is Thebe, ...

If you have binoculars, you may even spot some of Jupiter’s largest moons as tiny pinpoints beside the planet A waxing crescent moon and Jupiter will appear close together in the western sky on ...

Are you familiar with the constellation Crater the Cup? If not, don’t worry — you’re about to spot it tonight. This mid-sized constellation, measuring 53rd in size among the 88 official constellations ...

When did Jupiter’s Galilean moons first contain the ingredients for life? This is what complementary studies published in The Planetary Science Journal and Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical ...