For instance, the Hubble Space Telescope entered safe mode relatively recently as scientists worked on remedying some ...

YR4, which recently caused concern over the possibility of it impacting Earth, has been the subject of extensive tracking ...

Astronomers have traced the origin of asteroid 2024 YR4, which appears to have broken off from a larger space rock.

NASA’s Juno spacecraft entered safe mode twice during a recent close pass of Jupiter, temporarily halting science operations. While safe mode is a normal precaution when anomalies are detected, the ...

The asteroid that once had a small chance of striking Earth and now might slam into the moon resembles a spinning hockey puck ...

What can a sample return mission from Jupiter's volcanic moon, Io, teach scientists about planetary and satellite (moon) ...

We could be in for some testing times during April's Full Pink Moon (April 12), as Libra's quest for balance clashes with ...

A massive solar windstorm in 2017 compressed Jupiter's magnetosphere "like a giant squash ball," a new study reports.

Doesn’t Jupiter have the most moons ... We crashed a spacecraft into an asteroid’s moon in 2022. Earth has had a few mini-moons, some only a couple of metres in size. The line of what is ...

Io is an incredibly active and extreme place, with glistening lava lakes and volcanic eruptions shooting sulfur and magma to ...

Normally, Jupiter's powerful polar auroras inject significant heat into the gas giant's upper atmosphere ... which has been exploring Jupiter and its moons since 2016. They traced the cause ...