September 27, 2017 NASA's Juno spacecraft set for historic flyby of Jupiter's Great Red Spot NASA’s Juno spacecraft will make history Monday when it flies over Jupiter’s famous Great Red Spot.
September 27, 2017 Sunrise on Saturn: Gorgeous Cassini photo shows start of new day This is what dawn on Saturn looks like, from afar.
September 27, 2017 PHOTOS: NASA's Juno spacecraft releases first images of Jupiter's Great Red Spot NASA's Juno spacecraft has released the first images of Jupiter's Great Spot, two days earlier than expected.
September 27, 2017 Forget Mars: Humans may live here one day Move over, Mars: Titan could be the best place for a human colony.
September 27, 2017 Planet Nine? 'Extreme' objects hint at more evidence of possible unseen world A new salvo has been fired in the back-and-forth debate about the existence of Planet Nine.
September 27, 2017 NASA unveils new maps of Pluto, Moon Charon for flyby anniversary On the two-year anniversary of the New Horizons probe's flyby of Pluto, mission scientists unveiled two detailed global maps of the dwarf planet and its largest moon, Charon.
September 27, 2017 Astronomers discover exoplanet where a year lasts four-and-a-half hours The Earth-sized exoplanet is in a high-speed orbit around its star.
September 27, 2017 'Super-Earth' alien worlds may carve up planet-forming disks NASA's Kepler space telescope and other instruments have revealed the existence of thousands of alien planets.
September 27, 2017 Liftoff? Icy jets of Saturn moon Enceladus fly in NASA photo A photo of Saturn's moon Enceladus looks poised for liftoff as jets fly from its southern hemisphere.
September 27, 2017 Red Dots campaign hunts planets at nearby Barnard's star The Red Dots campaign, in which astronomers scan the night sky to discover planets around some of the nearest stars to Earth, began focusing on one of the sun's closest cousins, Barnard's Star, Sunday (July 16).