Australia woke to news this morning that NASA’s latest spacecraft launch from Florida’s Kennedy Space Center was a huge success. Our own Karina Holden was there for lift off!
On October 10, NASA is launching a new mission to find habitable spots on Jupiter’s fourth-largest moon, Europa.
Stargazers, get excited. Tonight Jupiter will be the closest it has been to Earth in almost six decades, creating a once-in-a-lifetime viewing opportunity.
In an extremely rare event, Australians will be able to see five planets in the sky at the same time – with the naked eye.
The bright string of lights in the morning sky this month is thought to be a one-in-1000-year event. Australia’s astronomer at large, Professor Fred Watson, explains why and where you can watch it.
Jupiter and Saturn meet in the sky for a great conjunction approximately once every 20 years at varying distances and we get to see that on December 21st.
The first results from NASA’s Juno mission to Jupiter have revealed fascinating new insights into our Solar System’s biggest planet, including Earth-sized cyclones and powerful aurorae.
JunoCam has captured the highest resolution image of a turbulent Jupiter cloudscape ever taken.
New research suggests that a storm on Jupiter may be helping heat the planet to degrees upwards of 500ºC.
This is the first in-orbit view from JunoCam, taken when NASA’s Juno spacecraft was 4.3 million kilometres from Jupiter.