On July 6, 1938, an American astronomer named Seth Barnes Nicholson discovered Jupiter's moon Lysithea. Nicholson spotted ...

ESA’s Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer (JUICE) that was launched in 2023 will take about 8 years to arrive at the jovian system ...

What color is moonlight typically, and what other colors can moonlight look like from our perspective on Earth?

NASA’s Galileo spacecraft studied Jupiter and several of its moons around the turn of the millennium. One of its instruments was a magnetometer, and it picked up a peculiar magnetic field ...

The complicated magnetic environment of 'weird' Uranus The four moons in this study—Ariel, Umbriel, Titania, and Oberon—are tidally locked to Uranus, so that they always show the same side to ...

NASA’s Juno spacecraft has once again delivered a stunning view of Jupiter’s ever-changing atmosphere. In this latest image, ...

There will be three full moons during the summer. And the sky this season has a number of bright stars that form easily ...

In April, scientists announced that they had used NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope to find a potential signature of alien life in the glow of a distant planet. Other scientists were quick to ...

The new moon is the opening phase of the monthly lunar cycle, and it occurs when the sun and moon — aka the solar system’s ...

If you looked at the churning clouds near Jupiter’s pole, they appear like ocean currents on Earth — as if you’re looking at ...

According to astrologer Nina Kahn, these three cardinal signs will be granted game-changing opportunities during the new moon ...

More Astronomers have discovered that the "dark sides" of Uranus ' largest moons aren't where they originally thought — and in some cases are on the complete opposite sides of the icy satellites ...