A Milky Way-surveying spacecraft found a planet 12 times more massive than Jupiter, along with a brown dwarf, each distantly orbiting stars smaller than the sun. Scientists have dubbed the ...

giving Earth residents something to observe as the spacecraft was on its way to explore the Trojan asteroids orbiting Jupiter. "In the original plan, Lucy was actually going to pass about 30 miles ...

An curved arrow pointing right. NASA’s Juno probe successfully began orbiting Jupiter on July 4. The spacecraft has 37 orbits to go before it burns up on purpose — to protect potential aliens.

NASA's Juno spacecraft has been orbiting Jupiter since July, 2016. But only just recently have scientists had a chance to analyze all of its data — and the results are painting a different ...

Turns out, there’s a lot more floating around the planet Saturn than those famous rings. Space scientists announced last week ...

Jupiter's Folded Filamentary Region as photographed by NASA's Juno spacecraft during its Perijove ... [+] 36—and processed by Kevin M. Gill. NASA’s Juno spacecraft orbiting Jupiter has sent ...

In late January this year, NASA’s Psyche spacecraft turned its cameras to the sky and captured some incredible images. The twin cameras onboard, part of the spacecraft’s imaging system, photographed ...

Gravity assists have become common practice for spacecraft venturing to the far reaches of our solar system. For instance, last year, the European Space Agency's Jupiter Icy Moon Explorer (JUICE ...

Originating over a century ago, the Black Knight myth centers around an alleged extraterrestrial spacecraft orbiting Earth, drawing upon disparate pieces of evidence to fuel speculation of ...