Following the speed boosting slingshot of Earth on Wednesday, Oct. 9, that sent NASA’s Juno orbiter hurtling towards Jupiter, the…
With the government shutdown, news out of NASA is sometimes sparse. But thankfully amateur astronomers can fill in some of…
Developing story - NASA’s Juno-bound Jupiter orbiter successfully blazed past Earth this afternoon (Oct. 9) and gained its huge and…
Trajectory Map of Juno’s Earth Flyby on Oct. 9, 2013 The Earth gravity assist is required to accelerate Juno’s arrival…
Psst! Live in South Africa and read Universe Today? Then you might just get a peak at the Juno spacecraft…
The next time that American astronauts launch to space from American soil it will surely be aboard one of the…
Triple planets (Venus/Jupiter/Mercury) conjunction over Mont-Saint-Michel, Normandy, France on May 26. Credit: Thierry Legault -www.astrophoto.fr Update: See expanded Conjunction astrophoto…
[/caption] All right, it may look just like any other picture you've ever seen of the Big Dipper. Maybe even…
Launched on August 5, 2011, NASA's Juno spacecraft will arrive at Jupiter in 2016 to study its magnetic field and…
[/caption] A year ago, 2011 was proclaimed as the “Year of the Solar System” by NASA’s Planetary Science division. And…