The European Space Agency announced Thursday the Gaia spacecraft was turned off after a decade of data gathering.

Earlier this week, Saturn gained a whopping 128 new official moons, as the International Astronomical Union recognised ...

Show Full Article Jupiter’s four largest moons – Io, Europa, Ganymede and Callisto – were the first ever discovered orbiting another planet. They were spotted by Galileo Galilei ... When the Voyager 1 ...

This image was taken by the Cassini mission. NASA/JPL-Caltech ... Jupiter's four largest moons – Io, Europa, Ganymede and Callisto – were the first ever discovered orbiting another planet. They were ...

In short, Galileo's readings were initially difficult ... Science won't have to wait another 30 years to find proof. NASA's Europa Clipper mission set sail last year and should reach Jupiter ...

Many other spacecraft, including most of the Mariner probes, Pioneers 10 and 11, GOES, Europa Clipper, Cassini, and Juno — to name just a few — have carried one or more magnetometers into the ...

The SPHEREx telescope will create the most colorful map of the cosmos, while the four satellites of the PUNCH mission track the evolution of the solar wind in three dimensions. transcript A SpaceX ...

In the 1990s, NASA's Galileo mission discovered the presence of intense electron beams within the Alfvén wing and other regions near Io. These electrons can travel along the local magnetic field ...

On Sunday morning, a spacecraft built by Firefly Aerospace softly touched down on the surface of the Moon, making the Texas-based startup the second private company in history to pull off the feat.

NASA’s former Galileo spacecraft still holds the Europa flyby record, passing within 351 kilometers in 2000.

Both spacecraft have three operational instruments, dropping to two in 2026. It is hoped that Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 will carry one operational instrument into the 2030s. Unforeseen circumstances ...

Crew-10 will launch aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket and Dragon Endurance spacecraft from pad 39A at 7:48 p.m. EDT. The Crew-10 astronauts will spend a few days with the Crew-9 astronauts on the ...