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

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

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

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

Highlights include a morning meetup between Jupiter and Venus, a chance to see the Perseid meteor shower, and a window into our own sun's destiny.

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

Venus and Jupiter shine together in a rare, close morning conjunction this August. The Perseid meteor shower is dimmed by ...

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 ...

NASA's Europa Clipper nailed a major radar test during a Mars flyby, proving it’s ready to peer into Europa’s mysterious icy shell and search for underground oceans.

Using the thermal equivalent of giving it a sharp whack, NASA repaired the camera of its Jupiter-orbiting Juno probe from 370 ...

Millions of kilometres from Earth, orbiting the giant Jupiter, NASA's Juno spacecraft faced a serious problem. One of its ...