NASA reconnected with Voyager 1, which is located nearly 15 billion miles away from Earth, after a brief pause that triggered ...

To accomplish this, NASA employs gravity assists, also known as a gravitational slingshot or flyby. A gravity assist is a space navigation technique used to accelerate (or decelerate) and redirect ...

Fastest Known Planetary System May Have Been Pushed by Our Galaxy’s Supermassive Black Hole ...

When that orbit ends, the space probe will need another Earth-assisted gravity maneuver. For the upcoming slingshot technique, Lucy will approach Earth from the direction of the Sun, as NASA has ...

Similar to the pull of the Earth’s tides, gravitational tugs from nearby moons deform Miranda ... Uranus and Jupiter will ...

NASA re-established communication with Voyager 1, an interstellar spacecraft that nearly five months ago began sending ...

The probe, roughly the size of a small car, has utilised Venus’s gravitational pull as a slingshot to reduce its distance ...

Welcome to the 1970s, a strange mélange of grimy New York City streets, the hardscrabble blue-collar strength of union ...

The Europa Clipper will use the “slingshot method“ to gather enough gravity for its 6-year-long voyage to Jupiter Image credits: NASA Since a fuel motor alone will not be enough to carry the ...

Hera's journey to asteroid Dimorphos. To get to asteroid Dimorphos, Hera performed its first maneuver with two bursts from ...

Black holes are points in space that are so dense they create deep gravity sinks. Beyond a certain region, not even light can escape the powerful tug of a black hole's gravity. And anything that ...

Gravitational waves that span thousands to billions of miles can be obscured in our detectors by the smallest of quantum fluctuations that permeate space-time. But now, researchers at the Laser ...