Highlights include a morning meetup between Jupiter and Venus, a chance to see the Perseid meteor shower, and a window into ...

Jupiter and Venus, the two brightest planets in our solar system, should be widely visible for much of August in Florida and ...

American space agency NASA says it used the gravity assist maneuver the Europa Clipper conducted back in March to test the ...

On Aug. 5, 2011, NASA launched the Juno spacecraft on a mission to study Jupiter, the largest planet in the solar system. The ...

NASA has used a tool that was never meant to be used to study other cosmic bodies, but the space agency used it to see the ...

Launched in October 2024, Europa Clipper is on a 1.8-billion-mile (2.9-billion-kilometer) journey to study Jupiter and its moons. On March 1, it flew within 550 miles (884 kilometers) of Mars' surface ...

The Mars flyby in March was primarily to use the planet's gravitational pull to tweak the Europa Clipper's trajectory.

Europa’s surface chemistry hints at life-supporting conditions below. Lab tests reveal how peroxide forms in unexpected ...

NASA's Europa Clipper nailed a major radar test during a Mars flyby, proving it’s ready to peer into Europa’s mysterious icy shell and search for underground oceans.

The planetary meet up between the two brightest planets in our solar system is known as the conjunction and takes place over ...

Using the thermal equivalent of giving it a sharp whack, NASA repaired the camera of its Jupiter-orbiting Juno probe from 370 ...