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A little-known fact to the general public is that there's more moving around Jupiter's orbit than just the giant gas planet.

NASA have found something new moving in our Solar System. Even thought it's not water, still a phenomenon worth of time ...

University College Dublin (UCD) researchers Assoc Prof Barry Wardell and Prof Kylie Jarrett to receive a total of €5 million for projects exploring ...

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China launches Tianwen-2 probe to asteroid 2016 HO3 near Mars to collect samples, aiming for groundbreaking results in space exploration and Earth formation clues.

China on Thursday launched a space probe on the country's first mission to retrieve samples from an asteroid and bring them home for research, the Xinhua state news agency reported.

Kosmos 482 rocketed into space in 1972 on a quest to reach Venus, ... A Soviet-era space probe crashed back to Earth after more than 50 years in orbit. May 12, 2025 12:19 PM ET. By .

Juno is a space probe launched in 2011 with the mission of exploring the Jovian system. Named after the Roman god Jupiter's wife, Juno's job is to observe Jupiter and report back to Earth.

The space probe, named Hera, was launched on Oct. 7, 2024, and is on a mission to gather close-up data about the Dimorphos asteroid, the European Space Agency said in a news release.

On Dec. 8, 1990, NASA's Galileo spacecraft flew by Earth on its way to Jupiter. Galileo was the first spacecraft to study Jupiter and its moons for an extended period of time, and it actually flew ...

On November 5, 2002, NASA's old Galileo spacecraft was almost out of fuel. But the Jupiter mission still had some science to do. ‘On This Day in Space’ Video Series on Space.com Galileo flew ...