PASADENA, Calif. -- Launched by NASA in August 2011, the spacecraft Juno is set to arrive at Jupiter on July 4. Currently cartwheeling through space, once Juno gets close enough to Jupiter, it will ...

The NASA spacecraft tasked with uncovering the secrets of Jupiter, king of the planets, is running out of time. The Juno probe has already survived far longer than anticipated—its path around the ...

You have likely heard Europa described as one of the most promising places to search for life beyond Earth. The icy moon of ...

After nearly 10 years, NASA’s Jupiter explorer Juno is likely no longer operating, with its latest mission extension ending during the ongoing U.S. government shutdown. The Juno spacecraft launched ...

After five years of rocketing to Jupiter at 60,000 mph, the fastest object ever created by humans, NASA’s Juno spacecraft, must flawlessly slam on the brakes before its July 4 arrival to the ...

The Jupiter-bound Juno probe will make a final encounter with Earth Wednesday before heading off to study our solar system's largest planet. Juno's flight plan takes it beyond the orbit of Mars and ...

NASA's Juno spacecraft made a close flyby of Jupiter moon lo. See an animation of the images the probe captured created by Koji Kuramura and Gerald Eichstädt. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/MSSS | ...

PASADENA, Calif. — The best celebration this Independence Day wasn’t around a barbecue or fireworks show, but in a dark room filled with NASA engineers. After hours of anticipation, team members broke ...

NASA’s history-making spacecraft, Juno, made a spectacularly successful journey to Jupiter this July 4, entering the planet’s orbit and transmitting back to Earth all manner of data about the ...

Using the thermal equivalent of giving it a sharp whack, NASA repaired the camera of its Jupiter-orbiting Juno probe from 370 million miles (590 million km) away after the instrument was put out of ...

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 ...