A century ago, Edwin Hubble revolutionized our understanding of the universe by proving that the Milky Way is just one of many galaxies in an ever-expanding cosmos. This breakthrough led to the ...

Sydney and Jet are having a hard time explaining to Mindy that the sun doesn’t move – the Earth is moving around the Sun. Sean comes over dressed as his science hero Galileo, so Mindy asks “Galileo” ...

Surveyor is a $1.4-billion infrared telescope with a single mission: to hunt asteroids and comets that could pose a danger to Earth. Astronomers have already identified roughly 2,500 asteroids larger ...

Planets don't get much more iconic than Saturn. But if you managed to see it through a backyard telescope right now, you wouldn't see its rings.

Due to a transition in Saturn's planetary axis, Earth's ability to perceive Saturn's vibrant rings will be in "perfect ...

Interstellar objects are among the last unexplored classes of solar system objects, holding tantalizing information about ...

Starman is the story of Gentry Lee, currently chief engineer for planetary exploration at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory.

TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — A Chinese fighter jet crashed during a training mission with the pilot parachuting to safety, state media said. The brief report by Xinhua News Agency stated Saturday that ...

They were spotted by Galileo Galilei more than 400 years ago ... This image was taken by the Cassini mission. NASA/JPL Regular moons are formed around a planet at the same time as the planet itself ...

"Scientifically there's a huge amount we can learn from asteroids," says Alan Fitzsimmons, an astronomer at Queens University Belfast and a member of one of Nasa's sky surveys that searches and tracks ...

Cochrane of the Planetary Interiors and Geophysics Group at NASA's JPL, didn't start out looking ... on 30-year-old measurements taken by NASA's Galileo mission. That mission launched in 1989 ...

Cochrane, NASA/JPL-Caltech. Researchers re-examined Galileo's data using advanced statistical techniques ... This study, published in AGU Advances, opens new perspectives for future space missions.