The University of Texas at San Antonio is looking to the moon for new ways to promote national security, protect the ...

TRAPPIST-1 b is one of seven rocky planets orbiting the star TRAPPIST-1, located 40 light-years away. The planetary system is ...

In stark contrast with a paper released last year that determined the exoplanet was likely to be bare and barren, new data ...

Called the Selene project, the initiative by Italy’s national space agency, ASI, focuses on developing the Moon Energy Hub ...

The European Space Agency recalls the historic landing on the Saturn moon and the mission that made it possible. Credit: ESA ...

Io's volcanic activity explained without magma ocean evidence Tidal heating powers volcanic eruptions on Jupiter's moon ...

NASA's recent flybys of Io, however, reveal that it likely doesn't contain a global magma ocean beneath its surface, as ...

Launched in a SpaceX Falcon Rocket, the probe was made to be sent to the Jovian moon Europa to conduct flybys around the moon ...

Scientists with NASA's Juno mission to Jupiter have discovered that the volcanoes on Jupiter's moon Io are each likely powered by their own chamber of roiling hot magma rather than an ocean of magma.

Researchers from the Juno mission have finally solved a mystery that has puzzled scientists for over four decades.

Observations made of Jupiter’s moon Io during the Juno mission’s flybys helped astronomers confirm how and why Io became the most volcanic world in the solar system.

When I asked readers on social media for suggestions about the coolest things they’ve seen in spaceflight during the last 25 ...