The spunky probe's final gravity assist around Venus will put it on track to break records near the Sun next month.
The potentially hazardous asteroid is on its way for an uncomfortably close flyby of Earth in 2029.
NASA's spacecraft had another close encounter with Io, revealing what appear to be two volcanic plumes erupting simultaneously from its surface.
The NASA mission is making its closest flyby of Io on December 30 to investigate the source of its volcanic activity.
The NASA mission's first close flyby came with an exciting surprise: Dinkinesh is a binary asteroid featuring not one but two space rocks.
The probe will conduct a close flyby of asteroid Dinkinesh on Wednesday to test its instruments as it steadily makes its way towards Jupiter's Trojan asteroids.
The Juno spacecraft captured new images of the most volcanically active body of the solar system during a recent encounter.
The spacecraft is 4.7 million miles away from Dinkinesh, but still has another 16 million miles to travel before their rendezvous.
These space explorers managed to document their final moments, sending back precious data before going silent forever.
The decision to expand New Horizons' mission to explore a potential object in the Kuiper Belt, and not just the Sun, comes as a great relief to scientists.
Dinkinesh is the first asteroid that the mission will encounter on its way to the Jovian system.
The spacecraft is preparing to enter the planet's orbit in 2025, firing its thrusters against the Sun's powerful gravitational pull.
The planned UAE Space Agency mission could launch a spacecraft towards the main asteroid belt in 2028.
The future of New Horizons hangs in the balance as NASA seeks to fundamentally change the focus of the mission.
Apophis will come to within 20,000 miles of Earth’s surface in 2029, presenting an extraordinary opportunity to study the asteroid from up close.
The images, showing the orbs separated by the brooding darkness of space, were taken as the Lucy spacecraft came by for a gravitational assist.
The space agency has prepared two maneuvers to prevent the spacecraft from colliding with a satellite inside the most crowded region of Earth's orbit.
The spacecraft will collect valuable data about this potentially habitable moon of Jupiter.
The spacecraft has seen a lot over the course of its sixteen year, 4.8-billion-mile journey to the outer solar system.
A pair of linked orbiters known together as BepiColombo passed within 124 miles (199 km) of the planet’s surface.
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