NASA's Europa Clipper spacecraft, en route to Jupiter's icy ocean moon Europa, recently captured a ghostly infrared portrait ...

A Falcon 9 rocket topped with 28 of the company's Starlink internet satellites launched from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in ...

"Rings are mostly made of ice and small rocks," said William Saunders, a planetary scientist at NASA's Langley Research ...

On Monday, NASA said that Cosmos 482 will return to Earth sometime between Wednesday, May 7, and May 13. The spacecraft is ...

Where is that tidal heating focused within Io, and just how much heat and melting is it generating? NASA’s Galileo spacecraft studied Jupiter and several of its moons around the turn of the millennium ...

Galileo was a spacecraft sent to explore Jupiter back in 1989, and its mission was ultimately successful, despite ending in a crash. Galileo wasn't launched on its own from Earth; it rode along in ...

This month's full moon reaches peak illumination at 12:56 p.m. EDT (17:56 GMT) and is known as the 'Flower Moon' to some in ...

However, DARPA wants the LASSO spacecraft to orbit the moon as low as 6.2 miles (10 km). "The orbiting spacecraft needs to ...

The European Space Agency 's (ESA) Proba-3 mission, consisting of two spacecraft called the Occulter and the Coronagraph, ...

Since its failed launch, the spacecraft's descent module — a heavy, durable object built to survive entry into Venus's atmosphere — has remained in orbit. It has been slowly descending toward Earth ...