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Ganymede, the biggest moon in the solar system, was hit by an asteroid 20 times larger than the one that…
New observations by the James Webb Space Telescope suggest that an icy moon around Uranus may have an underground liquid…
Look at any image of Jupiter and one feature is hard to ignore—its “Great Red Spot,” a massive storm raging…
NASA’s Juno orbiter has returned its latest batch of images of giant Jupiter, which are as impressive as ever. Despite…
Enhanced image by Kevin M. Gill (CC-BY) based on images courtesy of NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/MSSS of Jupiter during Juno’s 62nd perijove on…
Venus is Earth’s sister planet. They’re of similar size, and they’re both in our sun’s “habitable zone,” where liquid water…
NASA’s Juno has done it again. In the wake of its 60th orbit of Jupiter, the school bus-sized spacecraft has…
A small Saturnian moon has been confirmed to host an underground ocean—and it could have enormous ramifications for the search…
Deposits of water ice stretching over two miles below the ground have been discovered at Mars’ equator. It’s thought that…
A new study suggests that Neptune and Uranus are a similar shade of greenish blue, contrary to the commonly held…