Europa

Europa Clipper will explore Jupiter's icy moon in-depth during multiple flybys, studying whether Europa could harbor conditions suitable for life.

This new Hubble Space Telescope view of Jupiter, taken on June 27, 2019, reveals the giant planet's trademark Great Red Spot.

Twenty-five years ago, humanity first witnessed a collision between a comet and a planet.

Robots can drive on the plains and craters of Mars, but what if we could explore cliffs, polar caps and other hard-to-reach places on the Red Planet and beyond?

Twenty-five years ago, humanity first witnessed a collision between a comet and a planet.

Scientists have discovered that the yellow color seen on the surface of Jupiter's moon Europa is actually sodium chloride, a compound known on Earth as table salt.

Our solar system is a stormy place. Join us on a tour of storms.

NASA's Juno mission to Jupiter made the first definitive detection of a planetary magnetic field that changes over time, a phenomenon called secular variation.

Auroras at Jupiter's poles are heating the planet's atmosphere to a greater depth than previously thought — a rapid response to the solar wind.

Whether you're doing it for the nerd cred or the pie, this week on #10Things, we've got all the ways you can celebrate #PiDay with NASA.

Meet the women leading two of humankind's two most distant space missions.

Scientists have reproduced in the lab how the ingredients for life could have formed deep in the ocean 4 billion years ago. The results of the new study offer clues to how life started on Earth and where else in the cosmos we might find it.

Scientists have synthesized a molecular system that, like DNA, can store and transmit information. This suggests there could be a genetic system for life that may be possible on other worlds.

The next full Moon will be on Feb. 19, 2019.

Jupiter's turbulent southern hemisphere captured by NASA's Juno spacecraft after a close flyby of the gas giant planet on Dec. 21, 2018.

Upcoming 16th science pass of Jupiter marks Juno’s halfway point in prime mission data collection.

JunoCam data has detected atmospheric wave trains, towering atmospheric structures that trail one after the other as they roam the planet

From deep below the soil at Earth’s polar regions to Pluto’s frozen heart, ice exists all over the solar system...and beyond.

Quite a few candles have been lit since NASA was born on Oct. 1, 1958. Here’s a quick look back at some highlights from six decades of exploration—and a glimpse of what’s ahead.

September nights! Planets bright! Milky Way sights!!

Is there water deep in Jupiter's atmosphere, and if so, how much?

To most of us, dust is an annoyance. But these tiny particles that float about and settle on surfaces play an important role across the solar system.

Simulating alien worlds, designing spacecraft with origami and using tiny fossils to understand the lives of ancient organisms are all in a day’s work for NASA interns.

New comprehensive mapping of the radiation pummeling Jupiter’s icy moon Europa reveals where scientists should look -- and how deep they’ll have to go -- when searching for signs of habitability and biosignatures.

This summer offers plenty of opportunities for skywatchers looking to observe Mars, Saturn, Jupiter and meteors--with or without a telescope.