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NASA launches spacecraft on 12-year mission NASA's Lucy spacecraft has beamed back pictures from its latest asteroid flyby, revealing a long, lumpy space rock that resembles an odd-shaped peanut.

More NASA's Parker Solar Probe has successfully completed its second close flyby of the sun, the space agency announced earlier this week. The car-sized spacecraft swooped within 3.8 million miles ...

The Martian moon Deimos, captured by ESA’s Hera spacecraft during its gravity-assist flyby on March 12. The moon appears dark, framed by the brighter planet Mars behind it, in this monochromatic ...

During the sixth flyby, the ESA expected the spacecraft would fly less than 200 miles above the Swift Planet, while conducting measurements of Mercury ’s magnetic field and capturing stunning ...

Space Mercury may have frozen water in craters, spacecraft flyby reveals By Alex Mitchell Published Jan. 9, 2025, 6:45 p.m. ET ...

That’s why spacecraft often leave Earth only to arrive back at our planet a few months or years later, performing a flyby maneuver. In Juice’s case, it launched in 2023, and has now swing back ...

The European Space Agency's Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer, also known as Juice, flew past the moon on Aug. 19 and the Earth on Aug. 20. Both approaches were recorded between 5 and 6 p.m. EST, the ESA ...

It will reach that planet in August 2025, the ESA said. Flying by Venus will send the spacecraft back towards Earth. It will flyby Earth twice — once in September 2026 and once in January 2029 — to ...