China plans to lay the foundation for lofty space achievements including exploration of the planet Jupiter and a crewed mission to the moon. With those achievements under its belt, Beijing wants to ...

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NASA’s JUICE spacecraft (Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer) has captured the most detailed image yet of Earth’s radiation belts during a recent flyby of the Moon and Earth. This breakthrough marks a new ...

Saturn and Neptune will be in the same binocular view for the entire month. Neptune lies 3.5 degrees northeast of Saturn on ...

Astronomers searching the night skies for signs of alien life have long set their sights on Jupiter’s icy moon Europa. The recent discovery of water vapor venting from Europa’s south pole has ...

NASA’s solar-powered spacecraft Juno has sent back another tranche of images from 560 million miles (900 million kilometers) away. The bus-sized spacecraft, which has been in Jupiter's orbit since ...

Third, authors review Jupiter global mapping trajectories. Unlike the low-inclination tour trajectories, Jupiter’s global mapping trajectories need high inclinations. On the one hand, gravity assists ...