This mission is targeting a 14-day stay, and will fly up with one of the SpaceX Crew Dragons. The launch date is dependent on spacecraft ... SpaceX Falcon 9 on the Galileo L12 mission carrying ...

Spacecraft such as Europa Clipper (like Cassini ... Drawing inspiration from images taken by the Voyager, Galileo, and Juno spacecrafts and recognizing how little we know about Jupiter’s icy ...

These four moons are called the Galilean satellites because they were discovered in 1610 by the astronomer Galileo ... spacecraft to Pluto provide a unique perspective on its atmospheric storms ...

An aurora can be defined as an atmospheric phenomenon that takes ... as captured by NASA’s Cassini spacecraft. It also has auroras in the ultraviolet and infrared wavelengths (not visible ...

Following the 3,000th orbit of NASA's AWE (Atmospheric Waves Experiment) aboard the International Space Station, researchers publicly released the mission's first trove of scientific data ...

Firefly's Blue Ghost lunar lander has a payload which will attempt to acquire a GPS signal from the moon, revolutionizing ...

The second-ever commercial landing on the moon comes amid a flurry of lunar exploration activity that will see around a dozen missions this year alone ...

The Apollo spacecraft is a complex transportation system designed for lunar missions, standing 363 feet tall and weighing over 6 million pounds at launch. It consists of three main components ...

Iakubivskyi’s team is working with the private spaceflight company Rocket Lab on a series of Venus probes called the Morning Star Missions. The first, a probe that will fall through Venus ...

The first private spacecraft mission to Venus will combat the planet's hellish conditions with the aid of a novel woven heat shield called "HEEET." Engineers at NASA's Ames Research Center in ...

NASA's Lucy spacecraft has its next flyby target, the small main belt asteroid Donaldjohanson, in its sights. By blinking between images captured by Lucy on Feb. 20 and 22, this animation shows ...