For those who enjoy viewing the night sky, a unique opportunity is just around the corner late this month. Six planets in the ...

Discover a lively moment in Amsterdam where benches, cyclists, and pedestrians share a bright spring afternoon. The historic ...

Kandovan Village in East Azerbaijan, Iran is built directly into volcanic rock formations. Homes are carved into cone-shaped stone structures formed by ancient eruptions. The rock provides natural ...

An interstellar comet racing through our solar system released methanol, methane and cyanide, NASA says. Could these life linked molecules hint at how worlds across the cosmos are seeded?

Towering over California’s Giant Forest, the 2,200-year-old General Sherman tree is the largest on Earth by volume. But how ...

The measurements from NASA's Juno orbiter mark the first time that the size and shape of Jupiter has been evaluated in more than fifty years. NASA's Pioneer and Voyager missions made observations of ...

The updated measurements won't take away Jupiter's status as the solar system's biggest planet. NASA / JPL-Caltech / SwRI / MSSS Scientists may have been overestimating the size of the solar system’s ...

Like a bad Tinder date, Jupiter is not as big as billed. Scholastic materials across academia will need an overhaul after scientists made the startling discovery that our solar system’s largest planet ...

For astronomers, technological advances are akin to getting better glasses—there’s often a big jump in resolution. It can make the world considerably clearer and, in the case of astronomy, expose some ...

The enormous storms of impenetrable clouds covering Jupiter’s surface make it nearly impossible for us to get a glimpse of what lies below. Any spacecraft attempting to get a closer look would be ...

For over 50 years, we thought we knew the size and shape of Jupiter, the solar system's largest planet. Now, Weizmann Institute of Science researchers have revised that knowledge using new data and ...

The solar system’s most giant planet is slightly less of a giant than scientists once thought. Jupiter, a world that is so huge that it could hold 1,000 Earths, is eight kilometers narrower in width ...