Victoria Jaggard

This image of planet Jupiter and its four largest moons is the last thing Juno saw before shutting down its camera for its risky arrival.

A new study of ancient ash suggests that the dormant giant could develop the conditions needed to blow in a span of mere decades.

Forty years after Apollo 11, debate rages over who can control the moon. Meanwhile, the president of the “Galactic Government,” a Nevada entrepreneur, continues to sell lunar real estate.

More than 10,000 species still roam the Earth. We call them birds.

Learn about the mass extinction event 66 million years ago and the evidence for what ended the age of the dinosaurs.

Find out what causes shooting stars and how famous showers get their names.

Find out why blood moons happen, and how people have interpreted lunar eclipses through the ages.

Also see a spacecraft blast off for Mercury and a SpaceX rocket make history in our picks for the most stunning space pictures of the month.

Hearing people talk at cocktail parties may be easier if you’ve been musically trained, according to new research that shows music fine-tunes certain language abilities in the brain.