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Asteroid Bennu is a small, carbon-rich near-Earth asteroid that preserves some of the most primitive material left from the birth of the Solar System. Credit: NASA ...

Jupiter and its four Galilean moons — (from left to right) Ganymede, Io, Callisto, and Europa — sit near the Moon’s limb in this photoillustration depicting the jovian system’s orientation a few ...

Early Monday morning, the European Space Agency’s Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer (Juice) zoomed by Earth as it prepared to slingshot itself off to the outer solar system. The flyby’s goal was to let Juice ...

ESA’s JUICE spacecraft uses a 2026 Earth flyby to change course and gain speed as it continues its journey toward Jupiter and ...

Scientists studying samples from asteroid Bennu say the space rock preserves a chemical mix that is close to the raw material that built the terrestrial planets, including Earth. These findings were ...