China’s lunar ambitions have evolved from symbolic flag planting to a systematic push for permanent space infrastructure.

With advancement of space tech, photographs clicked from space over the years illuminate distant worlds in stunning detail.

Set to orbit Jupiter and make over 40 flybys of Europa, this spacecraft is built to analyze the moon’s subsurface ocean without landing. Equipped with a vault to shield its electronics from intense ...

A series of obstacles could make finding life on Europa more difficult. At an American Geophysical Union conference last year, scientists reported that the ice layer covering the moon's surface is ...

Jupiter moon of Io is famed for its volcanoes. NASA just spotted the most powerful one yet Not only was the hot spot larger than Earth’s Lake Superior, but it also was seen belching out ...

Jupiter’s moon Io has once again demonstrated why it holds the title of the most volcanically active body in the solar system. NASA’s Juno mission has detected an enormous volcanic hot spot in Io’s ...

A massive volcano on Jupiter's moon, Io is more powerful than all of Earth's power stations combined - says American space agency, Nasa. The huge volcano was recently detected during flyby of the ...

NASA's sending an octocopter-lander to Saturn's cloud-covered moon, Titan, with SpaceX's Falcon Heavy rocket with a launch scheduled for 2028.

Europa Clipper's best camera will resolve features on the moon's surface as small as 1.5 feet, or 50 centimeters, in certain areas. These views will be 12 times sharper than the most detailed ...

A SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket carrying NASA's Europa Clipper space probe launches from Kennedy Space Center on Oct. 14, 2024, on a mission to orbit Jupiter and study its icy moon, Europa, for signs ...

Europa Clipper will face a challenge once it reaches the planet's moon — exposure to radiation, since the moon is within Jupiter’s magnetic field. To combat this, the spacecraft's electronics ...

The huge spacecraft is headed toward the icy moon Europa, where it will use an array of instruments to survey for geologic activity, magnetism and more Jay Bennett - Former associate web editor ...