WASHINGTON (AP) — Jupiter’s dazzling auroras are hundreds of times brighter than those seen on Earth, new images from the James Webb Space Telescope reveal. The solar system’s largest planet displays ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. It’s a long way from Tempe to Jupiter, but a thermal camera built at Arizona State University is on its way. First though, it made ...

Mission scientists "waited with bated breath" to see if their last-minute operation to save a spacecraft's camera hundreds of millions of miles away had worked. Reading time 3 minutes NASA’s Juno ...

This striking image from the science camera on ESA's Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer (Juice) shows interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS spewing dust and gas. The tiny nucleus of the comet (not visible) is ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. An award-winning reporter writing about stargazing and the night sky. This image of Jupiter from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope ...

An experimental technique rescued a camera aboard the agency’s Juno spacecraft, offering lessons that will benefit other space systems that experience high radiation. The mission team of NASA’s ...

Europa, one of the four large moons of Jupiter first seen by Galileo 414 years ago, may have a deep, salty, global ocean hidden beneath a thick crust of ice. Where there is water, there might be life.

It’s a long way from Tempe to Jupiter, but a thermal camera built at Arizona State University is on its way. First though, it made a crucial detour at Mars, millions of miles from the quiet lab where ...

A thermal camera built at Arizona State University is on its way take readings on Europa, one of Jupiter's moons. To test the camera and its readings, the NASA mission detoured to Mars, relying on the ...