NASA and ESA’s Hubble Space Telescope has been observing the outer planets through a program called OPAL (Outer Planet ...

Proba-3, a collaboration among 14 ESA Member States and Canada, was launched to facilitate autonomous space operations and ...

Observations made of Jupiter’s moon Io during the Juno mission’s flybys helped astronomers confirm how and why Io became the ...

Scientists with NASA's Juno mission to Jupiter have discovered that the volcanoes on Jupiter's moon Io are each likely powered by their own chamber of roiling hot magma rather than an ocean of magma.

The Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) has successfully observed a site of planet formation by detecting a ...

This report represents the collective hopes of scientists who study the Sun, setting out plans for improving our knowledge of ...

If the planet has a liquid ocean underneath, its yellow crust caked in sulfur, it will be more squishable compared to a more ...

New observations show that newly formed planets close to a star help shepherd dust and gas to create more planets farther out ...

Faint magnetic properties in primitive asteroid fragments suggest an early magnetic field strong enough to shepherd the ...

New radio astronomy observations of a planetary system in the process of forming show that once the first planets form close to the central star, these planets can help shepherd the material to form ...