The other TRACERS spacecraft, imaginatively called Space Vehicle 2 (SV2), is in good health and engineers have started the ...

Jupiter and Venus, the two brightest planets in our solar system, should be widely visible for much of August in Florida and ...

Scientists want to send a spacecraft to intercept the interstellar object 3I/ATLAS before it vanishes for good.

Skywatchers are in for a two-part cosmic spectacle: a rare Venus-Jupiter pairing followed by the peak of the Perseid meteor ...

On Aug. 5, 2011, NASA launched the Juno spacecraft on a mission to study Jupiter, the largest planet in the solar system. The ...

American space agency NASA says it used the gravity assist maneuver the Europa Clipper conducted back in March to test the ...

NASA Juno spacecraft data has been used to create an animation of "Steeple Mountain" and a lava lake known as Loki Patera on Jupiter's moon Io. Credit: Space.com | NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/MSSS | edited ...

Launched in October 2024, Europa Clipper is on a 1.8-billion-mile (2.9-billion-kilometer) journey to study Jupiter and its moons. On March 1, it flew within 550 miles (884 kilometers) of Mars' surface ...

Here is your August 2025 guide for celestial events. The year will feature 12 full Moons, plenty of meteor showers, four ...

Scientists are exploring various proposals to repurpose existing spacecraft in order to chase after the interstellar object ...