The flyby of Mercury by NASA’s Messenger spacecraft in January provided the first close-up look at the planet since the 1970s.
NASA's Cassini spacecraft to image surface of Enceladus during Monday flyby.
... s Operations Center say the deep space Rosetta satellite has stopped sending its signal. It's an important and welcome step as the satellite begins a flyby of an asteroid millions of miles from earth.
The space probe Rosetta made a close flyby of asteroid Steins, hundreds of millions of miles from Earth, and transmitted high-resolution photos.
... atmosphere and blistering surface, will make its second flyby of the mysterious, rocky planet Oct. 6. ... further into the ultraviolet," he said.
The second Mercury flyby is slated for 2:40 a.m. MDT ...
... , orbiting within the planet's outermost ring. It is approximately 313 miles in diameter.
In this flyby, Cassini will be close enough to Enceladus to identify individual molecules in the moon's space ...
... shut down its ion propulsion system today as scheduled. The spacecraft is now gliding toward a Mars flyby in February of next year. 'Dawn has completed the thrusting it needs to use Mars for a gravity ...
... a University of Colorado at Boulder team after a second flyby of the hot inner planet Oct. 6 detected ... elements in the exosphere during the Oct. 6 flyby, including calcium and sodium. "Since calcium ...
WASHINGTON, Sept. 23 (UPI) -- NASA says its Messenger spacecraft will make its third and final flyby of Mercury next Tuesday.
... they make their way into gaseous tail, he said.
McClintock said that after the third and final flyby, the researchers will have collected about the same amount of data as they will gather during a ...
PASADENA, Calif., Nov. 4 (UPI) -- NASA says its Cassini spacecraft has successfully completed another flyby of Saturn's moon Enceladus and is sending data from the event back to Earth.
NASA's Cassini spacecraft tasted and sampled a surprising organic brew erupting in geyser-like fashion from Saturn's moon Enceladus during a close flyby on March 12.
Scientists at JPL have obtained the first images of asteroid 2007 TU24 using high-resolution radar data.
The Ulysses spacecraft today is making a rare flyby of the sun's north pole.
Unlike any other spacecraft, Ulysses is able to sample winds at the sun's poles.
NASA has approved the retargeting of the Epoxi mission for a flyby of
comet Hartley 2 on Oct. 11, 2010.
