Juno arrived at Jupiter on July 4 and is currently executing the first of two long orbits. NEW YORK: Five years after departing from Earth, NASA’s Juno spacecraft is all set to reach the farthest point in its orbit of Jupiter on Sunday to “get the science” of the giant planet with a mass two-and-a-half times that of all the other planets in our solar system combined. Known as “apojove“, the orbit is nearly 8.1 million... 

WASHINGTON: Scientists with NASA’s Dawn mission have identified, on the dwarf planet Ceres, permanently shadowed regions most of which likely have been cold enough to trap water ice for a billion years. The findings suggest that that ice deposits could exist in these regions even now. “The conditions on Ceres are right for accumulating deposits of water ice,” said Norbert Schorghofer, a Dawn guest investigator at the University... 

NASA’s brand new ‘baby’ exoplanet. New Delhi: NASA’s planet-hunting Kepler spacecraft spotted a youngest known exoplanet orbiting close to its host star. Named K2-33b, the baby planet is only 5 to 10 million years old and appears similar to Neptune in size. As per NASA reports, the newly discovered planet takes just 5.4 days to revolve around its host star which is 20 times closer than distance from the Earth to the Sun. Scientists...