Voyager. Cassini. Juice. All three spacecraft performed gravity assists around Jupiter to accelerate their trajectory through the solar system. Would humans use the same technique? What could ...

a joint European-Japanese mission, completed its fourth close pass of the innermost planet last week, and it will enter Mercury’s orbit in 2026 to learn more about its mysteries Sarah Kuta ...

There's never been a dedicated mission to Io, only missions that captured images as they passed by, including Galileo, Voyager 1, Cassini, New Horizons, and Juno, NASA's current mission to Jupiter.

HAWTHORNE, Calif. — Three years ago, billionaire entrepreneur Jared Isaacman made history when he led the first all-private astronaut mission to orbit. Now he’s spending more of his fortune on ...

A stunning shot of Jupiter, highlighting the massive, swirling storm that has raged for centuries, was captured by NASA's ...

NASA's NEO Surveyor, an infrared space telescope, is under construction at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, aimed at detecting ...

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If opened that hatch too early, then the entire mission may have needed to abort and he and his crew would have been at risk of death. But that wasn’t the only danger: if there was a problem ...

The new movie Slingshot, released Aug. 30, explores that very idea. Filled with mind-bending effects and life-threatening drama, the movie features astronauts, Saturn’s exciting moon. As always, it ...

Hong Kong CNN — A Chinese “reusable experimental spacecraft” believed to be the country’s secretive space plane has landed back on Earth after more than eight months in orbit – the ...

Cassini spacecraft scanned across Saturn and its rings on April 25, 2016, capturing three sets of red, green and blue images to cover this entire scene showing the planet and the main rings. Saturn’s ...

Previously, he served as a project scientist for the agency's Mars Express mission. He also worked on the Venus Express and Cassini Huygens missions. What information are you looking forward to ...