If you're looking to impress your friends with some rare space facts, these gems will serve you well. The Largest Known Star ...

The four planet-strong "planet parade" currently visible to the naked eye in the night sky for a short time after sunset will ...

In 2021, NASA gave the all-clear to another potentially worrisome asteroid, Apophis, after new telescope observations ruled ...

Take advantage of a special 6-7 planet alignment from Earth's perspective. Planets 'line up' in the skies over California in ...

But it won't be a star that will be keeping the moon company on this early winter's evening, but the largest planet in the solar system: Jupiter. At mid-twilight, roughly 45 minutes after sundown ...

The universe is vast and our journey to understand it has just begun.

Io is Jupiter's third-largest moon, spanning roughly 2,300 miles (3,700 kilometers) across, which makes it slightly bigger than Earth's moon. It orbits Jupiter at a distance of around 262,000 ...

NASA released a photo of Jupiter that shows the planet in a whole new light. This new look at the gas giant is from the Hubble Space Telescope, a low-orbit observatory that was launched in 1990 ...

"This is the most powerful volcanic event ever recorded on the most volcanic world in our solar system — so that's really saying something." Even for Jupiter's moon Io, the most volcanic body in ...

The picture, snapped by the Hubble Space Telescope, reveals Jupiter shining in ultraviolet light. In the image, Jupiter's famous Great Red Spot, which appears red in visible light, is a instead a ...

The space rock is heading in our direction at some 18,700 miles per hour, according to the space agency's data.