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

Fluorescent cave minerals are helping scientists explore how life could survive in harsh places like Europa. Far beneath ...

Jovian storms can rework the whole chemical makeup of Jupiter's deep atmosphere by picking up ammonia from and dropping it ...

IMAGINE your home was powered by the dirt in your back garden. Well, that could be a reality for future lunar astronauts.

"The solar wind squished Jupiter’s magnetic shield like a giant squash ball," O'Donoghue said. "This created a super-hot ...

Saturn has "gained" a staggering 128 new moons in a groundbreaking discovery by astronomers in Taiwan. The find, made by a ...

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

Ellipses are defined as curves that surround two focal points. At any point on the ellipse, the sum of the distance to both ...

Earlier this week, Saturn gained a whopping 128 new official moons, as the International Astronomical Union recognised ...

It’s stargazing turnover time! Nighttimes are shrinking, and you’re forced to wait longer into the evening to begin your ...

It is stargazing turnover time. Night times are shrinking in Pottsville, and you must wait later into the evening to begin ...

Saturn has surpassed Jupiter, which has 95 known moons, with the new sightings. Uranus (28), and Neptune (16) are still ...