NASA's Juno Spacecraft is getting ready to embark on its journey to Jupiter, where scientists hope it will bring further understanding to solar system's beginnings.
Trojan asteroids share orbits with other planets in our Solar System to include Neptune, Mars and Jupiter. Two of Saturn's moons share orbits with Trojans, according to NASA.
A robotic probe, Juno, was hoisted onto an unmanned Atlas 5 rocket at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station on Wednesday in preparation for a launch into the heart of Jupiter. The Juno probe is scheduled to spend a year cycling inside Jupiter's deadly radiation belts to learn how much water the planet holds, what triggers its vast magnetic fields, and whether a solid core lies beneath its dense, hot atmosphere.
NASA's Juno Spacecraft was secured to its rocket on Wednesday morning, ready to embark on its journey to Jupiter.
It has seen the starry heavens, but at the end of its life cycle, the International Space Station is set to see the bottom of the deep blue sea.
One of the biggest questions physicists usually face is why the sun's corona -- its outer atmosphere -- is so hot, but it seems the latest research may bring them one step closer to solving the mystery.
A black hole at the center of a large galaxy has been seen attracting the motion of gas with its intense gravity and dominating the flow of gas towards it. As gas flows toward a black hole, it becomes squeezed, making it hotter and brighter, a phenomenon now confirmed by NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory.
Scientists have discovered first Trojan asteroid companion to Earth that orbits around the sun along with Earth for thousands of years.
NASA is scheduled to launch the Juno spacecraft on August 5 from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida, to the largest planet in our solar system, Jupiter, in what will be the first of three upcoming planetary missions.
A meteor shower is a celestial event in which a number of meteors are observed to radiate from one point in the night sky.
In April 1990, a photograph of a triangular shaped hovering UFO by an eighteen year old man named Patrick became one of the most sensational photographs that perplexed even scientists at NASA.
In an effort to keep outer space clean and junk free, Russia and its partners plan to sink the International Space Station (ISS) in the ocean after its scheduled retirement in 2020.
Astronomers studying data from an orbiting NASA observatory discovered the first known Trojan of the Earth.
A black hole is a region in space where the pulling force of gravity is so strong that light is not able to escape.
For more than a decade scientists have pondered about Saturn's water source in the upper atmosphere, which they have found comes from the icy moon Enceladus.
NASA is set to launch the "Juno" space probe that will travel to Jupiter, the largest planet in our solar system, to help scientists discover how the planets were formed.
NASA is set to launch the "Juno" space probe that will travel to Jupiter, the largest planet in our solar system, to help scientists discover how the planets were formed.
Once the International Space Station has finished its celestial journey, it will head to a new great unexplored region: the floor of the Pacific Ocean.
In an effort to avoid galactic litter, Russia and its partners will submerged the International Space Station into the Pacific ocean after retiring it in 2020.
How fast does the universe expand? A new measurement, the most accurate one to date, was introduced by a PhD student in Australia.
The 14-year mystery behind the water on the planet Saturn is now solved. Researchers have found that the planet's sixth largest moon named Enceladus is the source of a huge halo of water steam around Saturn.
Astronomers have discovered a twisted ring of gas at the center of the Milky Way galaxy. The ring twists in the middle in such a way that it looks like a cosmic infinity sign.