"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 ...

The number of known moons in our Solar System has been rising for centuries, but astronomers say it has probably peaked – for ...

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

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 ...

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) — ...

Scientists from UNSW Sydney have located a potential new exoplanet—a planet that orbits a star outside of our solar ...

It's called Europa Clipper, and it is centered around an orbiter destined to reach one of ... and a gravity experiment) which it will use to look down and scan the surface of the Jovian moon.

The spacecraft will use the planet’s gravity to bend its path slightly, setting up the next leg of its long journey to investigate Jupiter’s icy moon Europa. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech Europa ...