Voyager 2’s visit to Uranus in 1986 occurred just after the planet was slammed by an exceptionally powerful solar outburst.

The biggest stories of the day delivered to your inbox.

The countdown continued. The total cost of Europa Clipper is about five billion dollars, comparable to previous NASA flagships such as the Cassini mission. But the real cost of this voyage has ...

Another ice-shelled moon of the outer Solar System, Enceladus, stunned NASA’s Cassini mission team when the Saturn world revealed a magnificent jet to the spacecraft in 2005. The Hubble Space ...

The Cassini orbiter, a collaborative mission by NASA, ESA, and ASI, provided us with a stunning legacy of Saturn and its intricate system of rings and moons.

There is less money for an ambitious Mars mission. JPL is feeling the direct effects of this, with the third major job cut ...

"With the Dragonfly mission, NASA will once again do what no one else can ... To help Nasa's Dragonfly survive on Titan, the space agency has used Cassini data to choose a period of calm weather for ...

It was the first spacecraft to enter Jupiter's atmosphere. The Cassini spacecraft took detailed photos of Jupiter on its way to neighbuoring Saturn as did New Horizons on its journey to Pluto and ...

Over her long career, Bonnie Buratti has seen the search for life in the solar system go from a joke to a flagship mission.

A Taranaki man fascinated with space is working on a team that has sent a space probe to one of Jupiter's moons, to learn whether conditions for life exist there.

An illustrated depiction of NASA’s Europa Clipper spacecraft. Credit: NASA/JPL On October 14, NASA launched Europa Clipper, its largest planetary mission spacecraft yet. It’s headed to Jupiter’s icy ...

Europa Clipper is NASA's mission to explore Jupiter's moon Europa and determine whether its underground ocean is habitable. The mission launched on Oct. 14, 2024, atop a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket ...