The culprit was probably Jupiter's incredibly intense radiation belts. There's some good news and just-okay news about NASA's mighty little spacecraft Juno, which has been orbiting Jupiter since 2016.

There's some good news and just-okay news about NASA's mighty little spacecraft Juno, which has been orbiting Jupiter since 2016. The good news is that, on Wednesday (April 9), the agency ...

December closes 2024 with a bang, including meteor showers, lunar occultations, and the winter solstice. December will also be a great month for planet watching — especially for fans of Jupiter ...

The Perseids, the most-watched meteor shower of the year ... system that makes repeated close approaches to Earth. This year, Jupiter's monstrous gravitational pull will nudge particles from ...

A meteor streaks across the sky, a tiny satellite is set free, a final farewell from Saturn and more stellar images from November 2017. The EcAMSat, short for E. coli AntiMicrobial Satellite ...

The Perseid meteors are fragments of ice and rock ejected by Comet Swift-Tuttle, which swing into the inner solar system every 133 years. When Earth passes through this stream of debris each year ...

Viewers in the Northern Hemisphere will be treated to simultaneous meteor showers this month. Fireballs from the Lyrids and ...

it brings the annual Lyrid meteor shower. This first full month of spring also presents a micromoon, a chance to see an iconic (if distant) galaxy, and a very frisky Jupiter. The solar system’s ...

One of the earliest known meteor showers, the Lyrids, should peak around April 22–23. As many as 20 meteors per hour might be visible under cloudy skies. For the best view, face the ...