Europa Clipper - one of the most advanced spacecraft ever sent to another planet - aims to explore Jupiter's icy moon ...

Since then, Jesus has not wept again despite humanity’s continuing misbehaviour since He left. Jesus has not wept since ...

On this date, Jan. 17, 2002, the Galileo probe made it’s 33 rd pass of Jupiter’s moon, Io. After Voyager 1’s pass in 1979, Io was dubbed the most volcanically active place in the solar system.

Do all exoplanets known as “hot” Jupiters orbit alone in their respective solar systems, as has long been observed? This is what a recent study published in Astronomy & Astrophysics hopes to address ...

Hot Jupiters, similar in mass to Jupiter, orbit very close to their star, much closer than Mercury is to the Sun. They can't form close to the star due to insufficient gas and dust, so they form ...

The two satellites of the Indian Space Research Organization's (ISRO) Space Docking Experiment, or SpaDex, successfully met up in Earth orbit yesterday ... BAS is an Earth-orbiting space station ...

Ring System: While less prominent than Saturn’s rings, Jupiter also possesses a faint ring system composed primarily of dust particles. Juno Mission: NASA’s Juno spacecraft has been orbiting ...

The secret behind how the International Space Station remains in orbit can be traced all the ... This is the premise behind what keeps the ISS happily orbiting above our heads.

Credit: NASA/JPL Galileo Galilei’s telescopic discovery of Jupiter’s four moons in 1610 revolutionized astronomy ... much smaller than the Galilean moons and orbiting closer to the planet than Io. It ...

It was the last satellite in the solar system found by visual observation - all subsequent discoveries occurred via photography or digital imaging. As of today, astronomers have identified 95 moons ...

TEMPLE, Texas — Italian astronomer Galileo Galilei advanced the field of astronomy on Jan. 7, 1610 - 415 years ago from Tuesday - by discovering the existence of Jupiter's moons. His discovery ...

Both mission options rely on a capture, containment and return system aboard ESA's (European Space Agency's) Earth Return Orbiter to capture the orbiting sample container in Mars orbit.