NASA's Juno mission completed its 66th close passage to Jupiter—also known as perijove—on October 23. The spacecraft, which has been orbiting our solar system's largest planet since July 2016, regularly returns images to Earth in the form of raw data.
This year has been a true gift for stargazers, and it's going out with a bang.
The Small Magellanic Cloud is one of the most distant objects visible to the naked eye from the Southern Hemisphere.
Since its discovery in 2017, scientists believed that exoplanet LHS 1140 b was a gaseous planet similar to Neptune. However, thanks to data gathered by the James Webb Space Telescope in December 2023, astronomers believe this super-Earth may be quite different. The temperate exoplanet could actually be habitable and either covered in ice or have an atmosphere and liquid ocean.
It's common knowledge that our planet is part of the Milky Way, and that our galaxy is just a small...
Astronauts Matthew Dominick and Don Pettit are well known for their photography skills, capturing sweeping vistas from the International Space...
Lunar occultations are exciting events for any astrophotographer, as the Moon appears to pass in front of a celestial body. They're particularly thrilling when a planet is involved, and that was reason enough for astrophotographer Andrew McCarthy to travel nearly 3,000 miles. McCarthy flew all the way to Hawaii to get the best position for photographing the recent lunar occultation of Saturn. McCarthy didn't go just anywhere in Hawaii, but to Mauna Kea.
Astronomers have published the most detailed infrared map of the Milky Way.
While getting to Mars is now one of NASA's main goals, humankind’s first major ambition in space travel was to...
For most of the last 4 billion years, the lonely Moon has kept Earth company. But on rare occasions, our planet's gravitational has brought other celestial bodies into its orbit. This is exactly how Earth will gain a “mini-moon” in less than two weeks, when a tiny asteroid known as 2024 PT5 circles our planet for a little under two months.
The future of commercial space travel seems to be here.
The Moon is our planet's loyal companion, orbiting Earth every 27 days.
