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Juno is one of NASA’s most daring missions, flying closer to Jupiter than any spacecraft before it. With every orbit, Juno uncovers more about the gas giant’s atmosphere, auroras, and storm systems.
A team of international researchers led by Tomas Stolker in the Netherlands has imaged a young gas giant exoplanet near a 12-million-year-old star. The planet is orbiting a star whose planet formation ...
"Eight minutes later, the orbiter started receiving data from the descent probe, which slammed into the top of the Jovian atmosphere at a comet-like speed of 170,000 kilometers per hour," NASA ...
This article proposes a two-stage optimization framework to simultaneously solve the orbit design and mission scheduling problems of on-orbit refueling (OOR) systems in Sun-synchronous orbit (SSO).
Here’s what to expect from Project Kuiper’s first full-scale satellite launch United Launch Alliance will send 27 Kuiper satellites into low Earth orbit as we begin a full-scale deployment of our ...
‘Sleeping A Lot, Learning To Walk’: Indian Astronaut Shubhanshu Shukla Shares First Live Call From Orbit Group Captain Shubhanshu Shukla, India's astronaut aboard the Axiom-4 mission to the ...
China is developing the world’s first high-orbit quantum communication satellite to enable more efficient, globally accessible quantum networks and lay the groundwork for redefining the ...
Dominic and Michael Arcamone have been accused of causing around $10k in damage at a Jupiter barbershop after a misunderstanding.
In the 1960s, an unexpected gift from the Air Force led Herb Weiss ’40 to develop an antenna that could track a speeding ...
Astronomers have discovered the strange dance that leads to the creation of rare "double hot Jupiters" in binary star systems that are "just right." ...
A second batch of satellites has been sent into low Earth orbit for Amazon's Project Kuiper broadband network.