Set to blast off on Thursday (April 13), the Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer (JUICE) will embark on an eight-year journey to Jupiter, with the spacecraft estimated to arrive at the gas giant in July 2031.

A 43-minute burn set the stage for JUICE's upcoming 'double gravity assist' to propel it towards Jupiter. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how ...

The Gravity Assist Podcast is hosted by NASA's Chief Scientist, Jim Green, who talks to some of the greatest planetary scientists on the planet, giving a guided tour through the Solar System and ...

The European Space Agency (ESA)’s Juice mission is heading to Jupiter, but it isn’t traveling all that way in a straight line. Instead, like most solar system missions, the spacecraft makes use of the ...

On Dec. 12, at 11:15 p.m. EST, NASA's Lucy spacecraft, currently in a two-year orbit around the sun, will skim Earth's atmosphere, passing only about 220 miles (360 kilometers) above the surface. This ...

Today's story is being told because of a boring night on Twitter when I came upon this. It's graceful. It's beautiful. It's physics. Three random planets each with a different mass are placed on the ...

A visualization of the Lucy spacecraft, with Earth in background at right. Illustration: NASA's Scientific Visualization Studio - Walt Feimer, Jenny McElligott, Jonathan North, Krystofer Kim, Kel ...