Imagine you had to experience an apocalypse every day. Volcanic eruptions, tsunamis, asteroid showers. Every day would be a ...

Discovering extraterrestrial life would be one of the most profound scientific and philosophical revelations that our species ...

Europa Clipper will take off on a long journey to Jupiter’s moon Europa. The icy moon could potentially host alien life – and ...

All of that, plus fuel, means the spacecraft tips the scales at approximately 13,000 lbs., which requires a bruiser of a ...

Planetary rings don’t last forever, although they do exist for millions of years. The evidence for Earth’s possible ring is ...

A gravity assist is a maneuver in which a spacecraft uses the gravity of a celestial body to propel it toward another.

NASA has released the clearest images ever compiled of Earth’s magnetosphere radiation belt. But the spacecraft that ...

NASA's Europa Clipper mission, set to explore Jupiter's icy moon Europa, will commence with a launch on October 10 using a ...

NASA's Europa Clipper mission, launching on October 2024, will orbit Jupiter and conduct 49 close flybys of Europa, an icy ...

A spacecraft en route to spy on Jupiter and its moons has snapped a rare and excitingly high-definition picture of the ...

The European Space Agency’s Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer (Juice) pre-mission test has confirmed that its instruments are ready ...

Europa Clipper mission will travel 1.8 billion miles to explore Europa. It will investigate the possibility of life beneath ...