Galileo’s warning about scientific consensus still resonates centuries later as modern discoveries continue overturning ...

The frozen worlds orbiting Jupiter and Saturn might be encapsulated in "fluffy ice" that could send landers spiraling down a ...

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When you think of volcanoes, you might think of Hawaii or Italy... but how about orbiting Jupiter? Dan Smith shows how we managed to witness a giant chain of eruptions on one of the Gas Giant's moons.

We’re in what is touted as Europe’s largest gold-tier international dark sky park. Low light pollution — aided by this being ...

NASA engineers spun next-gen Mars helicopter blades past Mach 1 without shattering them. See how JPL unlocked the future of alien flight.

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The largest moon in the solar system — Jupiter’s Ganymede — has a unique and inexplicable magnetic field. New research could finally explain it: the moon is heating up.

A new study suggests Ganymede—our neighborhood's biggest moon—still has a hot, churning core cranking out its unique magnetic ...

NASA’s missions to Io revealed one of the most violent and unsettling worlds ever discovered in the Solar System. Orbiting Jupiter, the moon’s surface was covered in constant volcanic eruptions, ...