On Independence Day, while you’re grilling burgers and guzzling beer, Juno spacecraft will fire its main engine for half an hour and dip into Jovian orbit.

Destination: Jupiter promises to shed light on the science and technology behind NASA’s ambitious mission a few days before Juno enters Jupiter’s orbit.

NASA just awarded a company a $5.1 million contract to develop and deliver a water-recovery system to filter sweat and urine into potable water.

In just four days, Juno will come in contact with one of the most treacherous forces in our solar system – Jupiter’s legendary magnetic field.

This week NASA/ESA Hubble Telescope astronomers have released an image of a gorgeous aurora twirling above Jupiter’s pole.

On its journey, the probe will swoop by some two dozen Kuiper-Belt objects to examine details about the formation of the early solar syystem.

With an average temperature of -290 F, Titan has plenty of water ice but hardly any water vapor, due to water’s very low vapor pressure. That means any life that might exist would have to be non-water based — that is, is unlike any life on Earth.

About 340 light years from Earth in the constellation Centaurus, a 16 million year-old jovian world is in a cosmic dance with three suns.

A total of 104 planets out of 197 original candidates have been confirmed, with four of those offering promise as potentially rocky, habitable worlds.

The structure has been theorized for years but it’s finally been observed by astronomers, thanks to their keen eyes, tenacity, and activity on social media.

Copenhagen Suborbitals's Nexø I rocket looked bound for orbit for the first minute after it launched from the Sputnik floating platform.

In the next few years, estimates the number of orbiting nanosatellites — which range from just 2.2 pounds to 22 pounds — at around 1,000.

The first astronaut to step foot on Mars may be greeted by a robot. At least that’s NASA’s plan with its Space Robotics Challenge.

Astronomers at the ESA want to induce an eclipse, using tandem satellites to block out the sun and study its elusive outer atmosphere for hours on end.

Although it’s backed by some of the smartest minds on the planet, a recent study found that Breakthrough Starshot faces some major dangers in outer space.

Astronomers behind the Rosetta mission have captured images of a brilliant comet outburst that they think may the aftermath of a landslide.

After years of meticulous research and the help of fellow astrophysicists, an astrophysicist confirms he's found traces of a supernova underwater.

Six scientists emerged from a dome on a Mauna Loa mountain without wearing spacesuits yesterday, ending a yearlong Mars simulation.

The flyby was the closest a spacecraft has ever been to Jupiter and marked the first time Juno had each of its instruments directed at the planet.

More than a decade after its launch, the Spitzer Space Telescope still captures and transmits beautiful data about the cosmos.

Over the weekend, astronaut Kate Rubins successfully sequenced samples of DNA, establishing the a small sequencer as a valuable new tool for science in space.

Dipping 2,500 miles above Jupiter’s clouds, the Juno spacecraft snapped the first images of the gas giant's north pole during a fly-by on August 27.

If it weren’t for careful inspection from a team of astronomers at the Catalina Sky Survey, we may not have even noticed the asteroid, 2016 RB1.

The release is the first batch of more than one billion stars that the agency hopes to catalog using its Gaia satellite in the coming year.

Yesterday, the Rosetta probe began a 13-hour free fall that ended in a (relatively) gentle crash at the Ma’at landing site at 6:39 a.m. ET on Friday.

The next new member of the United Nations might one day be the first line of defense against threats like asteroids and coronal mass ejections from the sun.

Engineers may gain access to the ISS 3D printer through a new competition to create new designs for objects that can be printed in microgravity.

A team of University of California, Berkeley astronomers have turned their attention to Tabby's star, looking for signs of alien life.

A team of astronomers have given us a new glimpse of the night sky through the Murchison Widefield Array in the West Australian outback.

The manga-decorated Himawari 9 satellite is the second of two third-generation weather satellites sent into orbit by JAXA.

A team of international scientists want to crash a spacecraft into an asteroid.

At about 250 miles wide and 600 miles long, Mercury’s “great valley” would stretch between New York City, Washington D.C. and Detroit.

Two stars may collide around 2022 and their light will increase 10,000 times to become one of the brightest objects in the night sky.

Boeing just revealed its snazzy blue spacesuits designed for NASA astronauts aboard the company’s upcoming CST-100 Starliner spaceship.