NASA's Europa Clipper will launch aboard a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket from Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Despite concerns over some defective transistors on the spacecraft, the mission remains on ...

The Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer (Juice) spacecraft, barreling through our solar system, recently used Earth's gravity to ...

See how our seasons come from Earth's tilt and yearly loop around the sun, which changes the ice cover, vegetation, and ...

A temporary “mini-moon” will whirl around Earth for about two months as our planet’s gravity captures a small asteroid in its orbit.

By staring into the hellish landscape of Jupiter's moon Io -- the most volcanically active location in the solar system -- astronomers have been able to study a fundamental process in planetary ...

"There's very strong evidence that the ingredients for life exist on Europa, but we have to go there to find out." ...

NASA’s Europa Clipper spacecraft, the largest the agency has ever built for a planetary mission, will travel 1.8 billion ...

A planet swings in front of its star, dimming the starlight we see. Events like these, called transits, provide us with ...

will help JUICE reach the Jupiter system in 2031. In August, JUICE performed a first-of-its-kind Earth-Moon gravity assist, which gave the spacecraft an extra boost on its way to Venus. After visiting ...

Researchers from the Nicolaus Copernicus University, along with international collaborators, discovered a massive exoplanet ...