Jupiter, Saturn and numerous giant exoplanets discovered to date consist mostly of hydrogen and helium. In 1977, planetary scientists predicted the existence of helium rain layer inside such planets. However, achieving the experimental conditions necessary to validate this hypothesis hasn’t been possible — until now.
Juno passed within 645 miles of Ganymede, the closest any spacecraft has come to the moon since 2000
Sometimes in landscape photography, nature smiles at your camera and surprises you with much more than you were hoping to capture. This photo is one example of that. While photographing an erupting volcano, the photographer saw a shooting star flash across the sky and steal the spotlight in the frame.
Dedicated to uncovering and understanding mysteries of the solar system, NASA’s Discovery program has spent nearly three decades exploring outer space with 20 missions. With an emphasis on innovative planetary missions, the program is now heading toward Earth’s closest neighbor: Venus.
The moon will partially cover the sun in the UK later this week, but some parts of the northern hemisphere will experience a total eclipse
Locating the bursts’ homes suggests a connection to ordinary, young stars
A “potentially hazardous” asteroid zoomed past Earth on Tuesday — and it’s not the only one. In total, seven asteroids are expected to pass by our planet by the end of the week.
Thanks to some great timing with the phases of the Moon, the famous Perseid meteor shower promises to be especially good this summer.
A piece of space debris struck the International Space Station (ISS) and damaged its robotic Canadarm2 sometime last month, according to Canadian officials.
