The flyby of Earth reduced Juice’s speed by 10,737 miles per hour (4.8 kilometers per second) to set it on the path toward Venus and will save the mission around 220 to 330 pounds (100 to 150 ...

A solar wind event squashed the protective bubble around Uranus just before Voyager 2 flew by the planet in 1986, shifting how astronomers understood the mysterious world.

The agency has scheduled another close flyby of Io for Feb. 3, when Juno is again expected to pass at about the same distance from the moon's surface as it did Saturday. Juno's mission is set to ...

NASA's Lucy will venture as close as 596 miles to this asteroid, an estimated 2 ½ miles in length but much shorter in width. Scientists should have a better idea of its size and shape following ...

Juno’s next close flyby of Jupiter, perijove 66, will occur on Nov. 25, 2024. The Juno mission is scheduled to end on Sept. 15, 2025, when Juno will perform a “death dive” into the gas giant ...

Our understanding of Uranus might have been all wrong for nearly 40 years. In January 1986, NASA’s Voyager 2 spacecraft zoomed past Uranus as part of a grand tour of the outer solar system. That ...

A flyby of Uranus in 1986 is where we gathered much of our knowledge about the distant ice giant, but new research has found that this may not have been a standard representation of the planet's ...