After looping through space for 53 years, a wayward Soviet spacecraft called Kosmos-482 returned to Earth, entering the planet's atmosphere at 9:24 a.m. Moscow time Saturday, according to Roscosmos, ...

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NASA’s Juno mission has gathered new findings after peering below Jupiter’s cloud-covered atmosphere and the surface of its ...

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Earth has four seasons, but do other planets in our solar system also have hot summer days and cold winter nights?

NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory director Laurie Leshin discussed various outer space endeavors in an earth and planetary ...

A moon that resembles an iconic, fictional space station known to destroy planets may be a home for life beyond Earth.

Photographer Riste Spiroski snapped a striking view of the moon and Jupiter hanging over the ancient lake Ohrid in northern ...

Juno sheds light on Jupiter’s polar storms and Io’s hidden lava, offering insights at two of the solar system’s most extreme ...

"If there were only one object, that would be interesting but an outlier. If there's two, we're pretty confident that's a ...