When did Jupiter’s Galilean moons first contain the ingredients for life? This is what complementary studies published in The ...

Sky This Week is brought to you in part by Celestron. Friday7Asteroid 7 Iris reaches opposition at 1 P.M. EST today. Now ...

Southwest Research Institute was part of an international team that demonstrated how complex organic molecules (COMs), key ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. NASA’s Juno spacecraft captured the most powerful volcanic eruption ever seen on Jupiter’s moon Io. (CREDIT: NASA / JPL / ...

NASA recorded the most powerful volcanic eruption outside Earth on Jupiter’s moon Io.

Observers in the eastern half of the U.S. can catch the large blot of Ganymede’s shadow sliding across the cloud tops of Jupiter as darkness falls this evening. The shadow is already transiting at ...

For decades, scientists have been puzzled by the violent eruptions on Jupiter’s moon Io. Now, thanks to Juno’s recent close flybys, we know that Io’s 400 volcanoes are likely powered by individual ...

Sky This Week is brought to you in part by Celestron. Friday, February 6The bright star Sirius dominates the southern sky late this evening, blazing high in the south around 10 P.M. local time. You ...

The telescope primarily detects light in the infrared in order to observe sources such as the first galaxies and protostars.

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