After studying Ceres for more than eight months from its low-altitude science orbit, NASA's Dawn spacecraft will move higher up for different views of the dwarf planet. Dawn has delivered a wealth of ...

After the smooth arrival of ESA's latest Mars orbiter, mission controllers are now preparing it for the ultimate challenge: dipping into the Red Planet's atmosphere to reach its final orbit. The ...

The moon, Earth's closest neighbor, is among the strangest planetary bodies in the solar system. Its orbit lies unusually far away from Earth, with a surprisingly large orbital tilt. Planetary ...

Reid Wiseman's 2016 tweet predicted his future lunar orbit mission on Artemis II Artemis II crew set a record for the farthest human travel from Earth during lunar fly-by Wiseman and team orbited the ...