For centuries, Jupiter reigned as king of the moons. Initially, the Big Four, discovered by Galileo, and then as optics and ...

That's why humans have sent spacecraft to the Moon ... from Jupiter's center. As you enter the top of the atmosphere, you're be traveling at 110,000 mph under the pull of Jupiter's gravity.

Ganymede is the largest of the 100-plus moons orbiting Jupiter, and is also the largest ... be a gravitational anomaly - a ...

NASA's Europa Clipper is about to use Mars' gravitational pull to slingshot itself towards Jupiter's smallest moon later this ...

If a person with a mass of 55kg was to travel to Jupiter or Pluto, the effects of gravity would be very different from those on Earth. Gravity is the pull that a planet exerts towards its centre.

The International Astronomical Union formally recognised all of Saturn’s moons this week. The moons are yet to get names but ...

Legend has it that Isaac Newton had the moment of inspiration that would lead to his theory of gravity when ... through phases just like the Moon, and that Jupiter was orbited by its own moons.

"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 ...

NASA installed the solar array for the Europa Clipper spacecraft, a robotic craft with a mission to reach Jupiter’s moon Europa by ... the solar array on a gravity offload support system that ...

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 ...