The number of known moons in our Solar System has been rising for centuries, but astronomers say it has probably peaked – for ...

NASA launched the Lunar Trailblazer satellite to map water deposits on the moon, focusing on permanently shadowed craters near the poles. Weighing 440 pounds, it uses advanced instruments to ...

NASA's Galileo mission, which launched into space in 1989, was designed to study Jupiter, its moons, and its surrounding invisible magnetic bubble, called the magnetosphere. The spacecraft had 35 ...

Galileo is an initiative of the European Commission and is being developed by the European Space Agency (ESA) as well as the private sector. On 12 January 2006, the first signals came from its pilot ...

The past week has been bitter-sweet for space endeavours: While the European Space Agency’s Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer (JUICE) successfully blasted off on its mission to study Ganymede, Callisto, and ...

You’re looking at its four Galilean Moons, by far the largest of the giant planet’s estimated 79 moons. Their collective name comes from the fact that Galileo first observed them in the year 1609.

Here are some more interesting facts about full moons thanks to timeanddate.com: Know the news with the 7NEWS app: Download today Some Full Moons are only 99.9% illuminated, as seen from Earth. The ...

The Galileo satellite system is a £8bn navigation project intended to rival the US-controlled Global Positioning System. Once fully operational in 2020 it will provide accurate position ...

EHang, JAC Motors and Guoxian Holdings will conduct joint research on the automation of aircraft production technologies and build a manufacturing base, all to accelerate low-altitude aviation ...