Saturn has taken an impressive lead in the "who has the most moons" race with Jupiter after the discovery of a further 128 ...

The James Webb Space Telescope is investigating the Flame Nebula, hunting for "failed stars" to better understand how brown ...

Io’s long-debated magma ocean may not exist. Juno spacecraft data reveals that tidal forces deform the moon differently than ...

NASA's Europa Clipper is about to use Mars' gravitational pull to slingshot itself towards Jupiter's smallest moon later this week. The craft launched from the agency's Kennedy Space Center in October ...

The first major event of Europa Clipper's journey to Jupiter takes place this weekend as a gravity assist maneuver around the Red Planet.

For centuries, Jupiter reigned as king of the moons. Initially, the Big Four, discovered by Galileo, and then as optics and astronomy advanced, more and more, smaller and smaller bodies, until Big J ...

Objects under the influence of a gravitational field will move toward the field's center of gravity. Sometimes, as with the Sun and Jupiter, their mutual center of gravity or barycenter lies ...

Europa, one of Jupiter’s intriguing moons, is hiding an ocean beneath its icy shell — an ocean that might harbor alien life.

NASA’s Europa Clipper is using Mars and Earth’s gravity to travel efficiently to Jupiter. The spacecraft will study Europa’s ...

After that, it's a straightforward trek to the outer solar system; the probe is set to arrive at Jupiter's orbit in April 2030. "We come in very fast, and the gravity from Mars acts on the ...

Gravity assists have become common practice for spacecraft venturing to the far reaches of our solar system. For instance, last year, the European Space Agency's Jupiter Icy Moon Explorer (JUICE ...