NASA's Juno probe will peer beneath the icy crust of Jupiter's moon Europa | Good Mars weather lets NASA's power-starved InSight lander live a little longer | The Milky Way's supermassive black hole has a hot spot
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On Sept. 29, NASA's Juno probe will perform the closest flyby of Jupiter's icy moon Europa in over 20 years as the spacecraft embarks on a mission to probe deep into Europa's ice in search of pockets of liquid water.
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You can save $30 on this Gskyer refractor telescope that's best suited for kids and beginners and the saving means it's now under $100. Here's what to look for.
The Autumnal equinox occurs on Thursday (Sept. 22), at which time the sun will be directly over Earth's equator. This means everyone across the globe gets a day and night lasting approximately 12 hours each.
The Atlantic hurricane season of 2022 has picked up momentum. After a slow start, Hurricane Fiona has strengthened into a Category 4 storm after knocking out power grids across Puerto Rico earlier this week. Meteorologists are also monitoring Tropical Storm Gaston and three other areas of low air pressure that might develop into cyclones in the next few days.
How do you pick one asteroid out of thousands for a space mission? NASA made that tough choice with its Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART), which aims to slam a spacecraft into the moonlet Dimorphos on Monday (Sept. 26).
China is planning an ambitious two-for-one shot to the outer planets with a pair of spacecraft to launch for Jupiter and Uranus around 2030. The mission will be named Tianwen 4 and will see a larger probe destined for Jupiter and smaller spacecraft to be sent to make a flyby of distant Uranus.
NASA's DART asteroid-crashing mission is pretty close to what humanity would do if an asteroid threatened the Earth. But there are some key differences.
Don't miss your chance to return to the bioluminescent blue paradise of Pandora this weekend. The 2009 sci-fi phenomenon returns to multiplexes this week in remastered 4K 3D format.
