In late January this year, NASA’s Psyche spacecraft turned its cameras to the sky and captured some incredible images. The ...

Lucy is preparing for a close encounter with the asteroid Donaldjohanson, a key milestone before its groundbreaking journey ...

The world’s premier space observatory has spotted a mysterious and huge, free-floating planetary-mass object that’s “just 20 ...

Jupiter, the largest planet in our solar system, is a gas giant known for its swirling storms, iconic Great Red Spot, strong magnetic field, and numerous moons. Explore Jupiter’s moon Io, with ...

Unlike the typical blue-and-green depiction of Earth, this photo shows the planet in a mossy green hue, framed by a thin ...

"It's like a game of billiards around the solar system, flying by a couple of planets at just the right angle and timing to ...

The first major event of Europa Clipper's journey to Jupiter takes place this weekend as a gravity assist maneuver around the Red Planet.

A UVA professor is part of the study of Trojan asteroids, presumed remnants of the early solar system that share Jupiter’s ...

Newly released NASA images show the asteroid as a faint smudge ... how the Trojan asteroids ended up mostly together in front of Jupiter in its orbit of the Sun, and why the Trojans have the ...

NASA's Lucy spacecraft recently obtained its first clear images of the main belt asteroid 52246 Donaldjohanson, which is now within its line of sight. Lucy captured these images while it was 45 ...