On Tuesday, Oct. 15, SpaceX launched its 100th rocket this year, then sent its 101st aloft two hours later, both in their ...

NASA has just launched a mission to Jupiter's icy moon Europa. A NASA scientist answers kid's questions about the mission and ...

In the search for life beyond Earth, scientists have traveled to distant locations — Antarctica and its ice sheets, Chile and ...

China has made great strides in exploring space in recent years, rocketing astronauts to its own space station and bringing ...

Skygazers should have a chance to see the Orionids, one of the year's most beautiful meteor showers, just in time for Halloween.

Despite not heading directly to Jupiter, NASA's Europa Clipper mission is embarking on a six-year odyssey to explore the icy moon Europa. This extended travel time is primarily due to the spacecraft's ...

Nasa’s mission to a Galilean moon of Jupiter that’s encrusted in a thick shell of ice will let us know if its bulky ocean has ...

Olympus Mons, Mars' immense shield volcano, towers 21 kilometers above its surface, dwarfing Earth's Mount Everest. Covering ...

SpaceX's launch tower caught the rocket in' chopsticks' as it performed a careful calculated' landing burn' while slowly ...

By analyzing the movements of a mysterious cloud of sodium moving around the planet WASP-49 b, the team was able to construct ...

The spacecraft must navigate the vast distance between Earth and Jupiter, which is approximately 779 million kilometers at its closest approach.

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