NASA officials said what Juno spotted was 'the most powerful volcanic event ever recorded on the most volcanic world in our ...

Ahead of the Clipper is a 1.8 billion-mile journey to Europa on a trajectory taking ... ocean was gathered by NASA’s Galileo spacecraft, which orbited Jupiter from 1995 to 2003.

Since Galileo first laid telescope-enhanced eyes on Jupiter, scientists have continued to study the curious world from both the ground and the sky. In 1979, NASA's Voyager 1 and 2 spacecraft ...

Using this telescope, Galileo peered up towards the constellation Orion on January 7, 1610. His target was the planet Jupiter – an object brighter than the surrounding stars. To his surprise ...

The later Galileo mission, which orbited Jupiter from ... The spacecraft will not follow an as-the-crow-flies trajectory straight out to Jupiter. Rather, it will loop twice around the sun, passing ...

JunoCam spotted new volcano on Jupiter’s moon Io, the most geologically active place in the solar system. The first close-up images of Io since NASA’s Galileo mission in 1997 revealed the ...

On this date, Jan. 17, 2002, the Galileo probe made it’s 33 rd pass of Jupiter’s moon, Io. After Voyager 1’s pass in 1979, Io was dubbed the most volcanically active place in the solar system.

Juno fired its main engine beginning at 11:18 p.m. EDT/0318 Tuesday GMT, slowing the spacecraft so it could be captured by the planet’s gravity. [UPDATE: Tuesday, July 5, 11.00am] Juno, the ...

Amanda Kooser covers the quirky side of science and space. Citizen scientist Gerald Eichstadt processed a JunoCam image that reveals tiny moon Amalthea in ... [+] front of Jupiter's Great Red Spot.

These are also the first findings on the gas giant 's abundance of water since NASA's 1995 Galileo mission suggested Jupiter might be extremely dry compared to the Sun. The comparison is based not ...