NASA’s Europa Clipper, a $5.2 billion spacecraft headed for Jupiter’s moon Europa, is carrying a camera with just 8 megapixels — far less than a modern smartphone. But the choice was deliberate: the ...

A NASA-sponsored team has developed electronics that can operate reliably in the harsh radiation and temperature conditions found on distant planetary bodies like Europa, an ocean world orbiting ...

According to the space agency's tracking, the rock is hurtling through space at more than 21,500 miles per hour.

On first impression, Waiakea High School senior Aaron Lewis doesn’t exactly seem like a scientist. But Lewis was one of 14 newly minted Maunakea Scholars for the 2025-2026 school year during the ...

NASA scientists believe they’ve identified a kind of 'space battery' inside Earth’s magnetic shield, the same system that protects our planet from the Sun’s charged particles. So you might well have ...

Observations from the James Webb Space Telescope show how Jupiter reacts to its moons through auroral footprints, plasma interactions, and rapid electron flows detected in infrared measurements.

Elisha Sauers writes about space for Mashable, taking deep dives into NASA's moon and Mars missions, chatting up astronauts and history-making discoverers, and jetting above the c ...

The probe was one of two launched in 2012 from Florida to study Earth's hazardous Van Allen radiation belts. NASA states that while some components may survive re-entry, the risk of harm to anyone on ...

The probe was one of two launched in 2012 from Florida to study Earth's hazardous Van Allen radiation belts. NASA says that while some components may survive re-entry, the risk of harm to anyone on ...

The gas giant Jupiter will appear to reverse direction in the night sky from March 10 onward, bringing an end to its temporary retrograde motion that began in November 2025, which ...

An international team of scientists, led by PhD researcher Katie Knowles from Northumbria University, has made groundbreaking ...

NASA's Juno spacecraft made a close flyby of Jupiter moon lo. See an animation of the images the probe captured created by Koji Kuramura and Gerald Eichstädt. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/MSSS | ...