NASA's spinning spacecraft studying the satellites of the solar system's largest celestial body (aside from the sun), may already be switched off, but the space agency won't say. The Juno probe ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

IOWA CITY, Iowa — A University of Iowa researcher is part of an international team that has identified a never-before-seen plasma wave high above Jupiter’s north pole. The wave, called the ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — NASA's Juno spacecraft has provided the first close-ups of Jupiter's largest moon in two decades. Juno zoomed past icy Ganymede on Monday, passing within 645 miles. It's ...

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 ...

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 currently shines as a brilliant silvery "star" in the constellation Gemini the Twins, low in the east-northeast sky ...