Shrouded by a swirl of gas and dust, a gas giant, roughly three to ten times the size of Jupiter, was found in a new ...

Before defining what a light-year is, we should define what a light-year is not: It is not a measure of time, but rather a ...

John Casani, who has died aged 92, was an American spaceflight engineer who led the teams that pioneered Nasa’s explorations ...

Astronomers tracking an interstellar object flying through the solar system think it comes from a star at least 8 billion ...

Observations from NASA’s Juno spacecraft reveal that Jupiter’s strong magnetic field and the unique properties of its plasma ...

Researchers have looked into how far away the Voyager spacecraft could go while we could still detect them, and worked out ...

NASA's Voyager 1 was launched on a mission that was originally expected to last just five years. Fast forward nearly 50 years, and the spacecraft is still traveling through uncharted regions of space, ...

NASA's Voyager 2 spacecraft made its closest approach to Jupiter. It came within 354,000 miles (570,000 kilometers) of the ...

"Eight minutes later, the orbiter started receiving data from the descent probe, which slammed into the top of the Jovian ...