NASA’s Europa Clipper, a $5.2 billion spacecraft headed for Jupiter’s moon Europa, is carrying a camera with just 8 megapixels — far less than a modern smartphone. But the choice was deliberate: the ...

A NASA-sponsored team has developed electronics that can operate reliably in the harsh radiation and temperature conditions found on distant planetary bodies like Europa, an ocean world orbiting ...

Artemis 2 managers met over the past two days, conducting the mission's flight readiness review (FRR) ahead of rolling its ...

According to the space agency's tracking, the rock is hurtling through space at more than 21,500 miles per hour.

On first impression, Waiakea High School senior Aaron Lewis doesn’t exactly seem like a scientist. But Lewis was one of 14 newly minted Maunakea Scholars for the 2025-2026 school year during the ...

NASA scientists believe they’ve identified a kind of 'space battery' inside Earth’s magnetic shield, the same system that protects our planet from the Sun’s charged particles. So you might well have ...

Never-before-seen temperature and ion density measurements reveal that the effect of Jupiter's moons on its aurora are more complicated than scientists thought.

Observations from the James Webb Space Telescope show how Jupiter reacts to its moons through auroral footprints, plasma interactions, and rapid electron flows detected in infrared measurements.

Elisha Sauers writes about space for Mashable, taking deep dives into NASA's moon and Mars missions, chatting up astronauts and history-making discoverers, and jetting above the c ...

The probe was one of two launched in 2012 from Florida to study Earth's hazardous Van Allen radiation belts. NASA states that while some components may survive re-entry, the risk of harm to anyone on ...

NASA's Juno spacecraft made a close flyby of Jupiter moon lo. See an animation of the images the probe captured created by Koji Kuramura and Gerald Eichstädt. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/MSSS | ...

On March 8, 1979, NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft discovered active volcanoes on Jupiter's moon Io. [‘On This Day in Space’ Video ...