"It's like a game of billiards around the solar system, flying by a couple of planets at just the right angle and timing to ...

When a mudflat crumbles on Earth, or an ice sheet splinters on one of Jupiter's moons (Europa), or an ancient lakebed breaks ...

The Solar System is a vast and varied landscape offering an array of planetary and moonscape phenomena unlike anything found ...

Rayme Traub, a Sherrard native and NASA engineer, helped design the Europa Clipper probe. On Saturday, the probe will undergo ...

If there was a contest for the most interesting moon in our solar system, Callisto would be a contender. Jupiter's ...

NASA's Europa Clipper will streak just 550 miles (884 kilometers) above the surface of Mars for what's known as a gravity assist—a maneuver to bend the spacecraft's trajectory and position it for a ...

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

Researchers expect similar sodium salts to be found on the dwarf planet Ceres, in water plumes from Saturn's Enceladus, and ...

NASA’s Galileo spacecraft, which was designed to study the large, gaseous planet Jupiter and its moons, first caught hints of ...

By Alimat Aliyeva Japanese scientists from Kyoto University have discovered evidence of salt minerals on the asteroid R ...