NASA’s Lucy spacecraft is gearing up for an exciting flyby of the asteroid Donaldjohanson on April 20, 2025. The mission, ...

Exploration of the outer solar system may be getting a boost from the Vera Rubin Observatory (VRO). When this gigantic ...

But the spacecraft will close that distance by April 20, 2025, when it is slated to make a close flyby of Donaldjohanson. During the flyby, Lucy will pass within 596 miles (960 kilometers ...

but every time we lose contact with a spacecraft, I'm super nervous," he said during a webcast following the flyby. "Then I was running to the room where the scientists were [watching for images ...

If you buy through a BGR link, we may earn an affiliate commission, helping support our expert product labs. NASA’s Juno spacecraft has completed yet another flyby of Io, Jupiter’s highly ...

is ready to guide the ESA/NASA Solar Orbiter spacecraft through its closest encounter with Venus so far. Today's flyby will be the first to significantly "tilt" the spacecraft's orbit and allow it ...

The spacecraft is gearing up for a close flyby of Donaldjohanson on April 20, 2025. As reported by Gizmodo, Lucy will pass within 596 miles (960 kilometers) of the asteroid during this encounter.

Hera is set to reach its asteroid target in 2026, but the space probe got to dust off its science tools for the first time during its Mars flyby on Wednesday. The spacecraft came as close as 3,106 ...

NASA's New Horizons spacecraft conducted the first and only flyby of the Pluto system, culminating at the closest approach of that distant world in July 2015. Sailing onward, the probe carried out ...