Xodiac rocket makes its final flight. Originally built by Masten Space Systems, the suborbital Xodiac rocket had flown 175 ...

China’s Tianwen-2 mission has launched to explore an asteroid that may be a piece of the moon, as well as an active asteroid ...

Kellie Gerardi, a self-described science geek and resident of Jupiter, Florida, achieved her childhood dream of becoming an astronaut. Gerardi made history as the 90th woman in space and the first ...

On February 20, Mercury in Pisces forms a square with Jupiter in Gemini, setting the stage for a cosmic tug-of-war. On February 20, Mercury in Pisces forms a square with Jupiter in Gemini ...

Like an ambiguous game of telephone, messages get lost in translation when Mercury squares Jupiter, and no one’s quite sure what’s going on! Read between the lines, or swim in a sea of confusion!

The joint European-Japanese mission is only the second survey of Mercury, the least explored planet in the inner solar system. A European-Japanese spacecraft has beamed back some of the best close ...

It seems like it should be pretty easy to get to Mercury ... to Earth than distant destinations like Jupiter, where we’ve successfully sent multiple spacecraft. Plus, it doesn’t have a ...

On Nov. 18, a clashing opposition between Mercury and Jupiter asks you to reconsider what you know to be true Sometimes there can be more than one truth, even if merely a change in perspective.

A spacecraft that will study one of Jupiter’s moons launched Monday on a journey of more than six years to discover if the moon has the ability to support life. The solar-powered spacecraft ...

After taking off, 27 Merlin engines on the SpaceX rocket generated more than 5 million pounds of thrust to hurtle the Clipper through the atmosphere and toward Jupiter. The spacecraft was later ...

"One of the Europa Clipper mission's main challenges is delivering a spacecraft hardy enough to withstand the pummeling of radiation from Jupiter but also sensitive enough to gather the ...