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The European Space Agency’s Juice mission made two historic firsts this week on its long journey to study the potential habitability of Jupiter’s icy moons. The Juice, or Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer, ...

The flyby is a gravity assist that will save the spacecraft fuel as it prepares to land on the moon. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it ...

A flyby of Uranus in 1986 is where we gathered much of our knowledge about the distant ice giant, but new research has found that this may not have been a standard representation of the planet's ...

NASA's Lucy spacecraft will swoop past a small asteroid this weekend as it makes its way to an even bigger prize: the unexplored swarms of asteroids near Jupiter. It will be the second asteroid ...

“It’s all about the encounter physics.” With those words, MIT Professor of Planetary Sciences Richard Binzel emphasized the record-book quality of what will happen on April 13, 2029, when asteroid ...

Tecnam Aircraft, the manufacturer of single and multiengine designs, will be sending 12 aircraft to FlyBy Aviation Academy, one of the largest GA training organizations in Spain. According to Tecnam, ...

Some of Uranus’ apparent oddities might be due to bad timing. “We just caught it at this freak moment in time,” says Jamie Jasinski, a space plasma physicist at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in ...

See the epic view of the moon and Earth captured by the Orion spacecraft ahead of its outbound powered flyby on Nov. 21, 2022.

Ice, ice, baby — too cold, too cold. A recent spacecraft flyby over Mercury has experts believing that the planet closest to the sun has “frozen water” on its surface — and they’re excited to get a ...

Europe's JUICE Jupiter probe swung by the moon for a "gravity assist" on Monday (Aug. 19), and it snapped some photos to commemorate the historic encounter. JUICE (short for Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer ...