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 ...
A temporary “mini-moon” will whirl around Earth for about two months as our planet’s gravity captures a small asteroid in its orbit.
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 ...
Astronomers from the Nicolaus Copernicus University in Torun have discovered a new planet in the constellation of the Great ...
Surely, the most overarching theme over the past 239 installments — that’s one month shy of 20 years worth — of Roanoke Skies has been one of amazing “astronomical numbers.” This ...
Depending on the launch date of the spacecraft, the Europa Clipper is expected to make a flyby of Mars in February of 2025, ...
Jupiter’s moon Europa shows strong evidence for an ocean of liquid water beneath its icy crust. In fact, it could have all ...
NASA on Monday gave the green light for a mission to Jupiter to study the moon Europa's underground ocean. The Europa Clipper ...
This artist’s concept depicts NASA’s Europa Clipper spacecraft in orbit around Jupiter. The mission’s launch period ... the ...