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Where did the two natural satellites of Mars, Phobos and Deimos, come from? For a long time, their shape suggested that they were asteroids captured by Mars. However, the shape and course of their orbits contradict this ...

Late at night, when the halls around her were empty, Heidi Becker positioned her subject in the crosshairs of an electron-shooting linear accelerator. Along with her companions, she arranged a cartload of heavy lead bric...

(Phys.org)--A small team of researchers with members from institutions in France and Japan has found evidence in chondrules that suggest their existence came from collisions between planetesimals in the inner part of the...

For five years, three Lego minifigures have journeyed through space aboard NASA's Juno spacecraft. On July 4, the Lego figures (along with the probe) will arrive at the giant planet Jupiter on a mission to inspire childr...

China will launch a mission to land on the dark side of the moon in two years' time, state media reported, in what will be a first for humanity. The moon's far hemisphere is never directly visible from Earth and...

NASA on Monday counted down to a high-stakes attempt to orbit closer than ever to the planet Jupiter, on a $1.1 billion mission to probe the origin of the solar system.

The Soyuz spacecraft that will transport the next crew to the International Space Station was mated to its booster rocket and rolled out to the launch pad at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan....

Secrets lie deep within Jupiter, shrouded in the solar system's strongest magnetic field and most lethal radiation belts. On July 4, 2016, NASA's Juno spacecraft will plunge into uncharted territory, entering orbit aroun...

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory has provided the following Orbital Insertion press kit for the 4th of July critical insertion into Jupiter's orbit....

The Hubble Space Telescope has captured a stunning view of a fireworks display blazing up in deep space, provided courtesy of the dwarf galaxy Kiso 5639.

Poised to enter Jovian orbit on July 4, the NASA spacecraft is set to probe the gas giant’s deepest mysteries --

As Juno nears Jupiter tonight, the giant planet's powerful gravity will accelerate the spacecraft to an estimated top speed of about 165,000 mph (265,000 km/h) relative to Earth, mission team members said.

NASA negotiated discounted mission prices with SpaceX after one of the Hawthorne, Calif., company's rockets broke apart last June while laden with supplies for the International Space Station, according to a report by th...

A Chalmers-led team of astronomers have used the Alma telescope to make the surprising discovery of a jet of cool, dense gas in the centre of a galaxy located 70 million light years from Earth. The jet, with its unusual,...

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A solar-powered spacecraft is spinning toward Jupiter for the closest encounter with the biggest planet in our solar system.

After a nearly 5 year odyssey across the solar system, NASA's solar powered Juno orbiter is all set to ignite its main engine late tonight and set off a powerful charge of do-or-die fireworks on America's 'Independence D...

Imagine, if you will, that the Universe was once a much dirtier place than it is today. Imagine also that what we see around us, a relatively clean and unobscured Universe, is the result of billions of years of stars beh...

This is the final view taken by the JunoCam instrument on NASA's Juno spacecraft before Juno's instruments were powered down in preparation for orbit insertion....

The countdown is on for the Juno spacecraft to reach its destination at Jupiter in a matter of hours after a five-year journey, the first solar-powered spacecraft to travel this far from the sun. This evening, July 4, Ju...

NASA received data from the spacecraft to confirm that it has completed its orbit insertion burn and is now officially in Jupiter orbit.

NASA's robotic Juno probe began circling the solar system's largest planet tonight (July 4), ending a nearly five-year journey through deep space and becoming the first spacecraft to enter Jupiter orbit since NASA's Gali...