Alas, the miracle could not last. The solar storms were heating Earth's upper atmosphere, causing it to inflate and increase ...

Russia's state-owned Rosatom announced a prototype plasma engine which could speed up travel to other planets.

To get somewhere in outer space, you can’t exactly drive in a straight line. Orbits are tricky things, and sending a probe to ...

NASA's Europa Clipper will initiate a gravity assist on its journey to Jupiter. The probe will slingshot around Mars to gain speed. NASA footage ...

Stargazers will be treated to a rare seven-planet alignment in February. This is what scientists hope to learn.

New photos of comet C/2024 G3 (ATLAS) suggest that it could be disintegrating due to "thermal stress" from its recent slingshot around the sun. However, its fate is still unclear.

Using a technique called slingshot, the spacecraft utilizes a planet's gravitational field to travel, saving fuel. During the long journey, the crew must undergo 90-day hibernation cycles.

This slowly destabilizes the object and causes it to break apart into fragments that are loosely bound together by gravity ... during its previous solar slingshot. Therefore, C/2024 G3 might ...

Using the gravitational pull of a well-placed planet, such as Jupiter, to slingshot a spacecraft outwards can reduce the travel time dramatically Reaching the outer planets with a spacecraft is ...