Jupiter is already the biggest planet by far in our solar system, but new research suggests it was somehow once even larger than it is now. Twice as large, in fact. To put that into context, those ...

PARIS (Reuters) -European scientists were poised to attempt a first in orbital gymnastics late on Monday, tapping into the gravity of the Moon and then the Earth in quick succession to guide the JUICE ...

Jupiter’s immense size and gravity would make humans 11 times heavier, tear apart our Moon into rings and pull asteroids ...

Something incredibly strange is unfolding in our cosmic neighborhood, a powerful and unexplained gravitational force is ...

Beyond Gravity, a leading supplier to the space industry, provided key products for Europe’s first mission to Jupiter. The Airbus-built Juice satellite is controlled by a computer and protected by ...

The Juno spacecraft now orbiting Jupiter has a suite of science instruments which will investigate the existence of a possible solid planetary core, map Jupiter’s intense magnetic field, measure the ...

Jupiter's rapid early growth dramatically reshaped our solar system, scientists now reveal. Its immense gravity acted as a cosmic divider, separating ...

(CNN) - NASA launched the Europa Clipper, the largest spacecraft it has ever built, for a planetary mission on Monday. A SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket gave it a lift from Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

Just over a year after it was launched, the European Space agency’s Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer (JUICE) is returning towards Earth on Aug. 19-20 and will use the braking effect of its gravity to take a ...