NASA's Europa Clipper spacecraft, launching in October 2024, will beat JUICE to Jupiter by about a year, arriving in orbit in April 2030, thanks to the power of its SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket. But ...

"Eight minutes later, the orbiter started receiving data from the descent probe, which slammed into the top of the Jovian ...

Jupiter sets record after 12 new moons discovered 00:14. A NASA spacecraft made its closest-ever approach to Jupiter's moon Io, coming within 930 miles of the "surface of the most volcanic world ...

NASA's Europa Clipper spacecraft is set to explore Jupiter's moon Europa, one of the prime candidates for finding life beyond Earth. Europa Clipper will assess whether Europa's conditions, ...

Ganymede likely has some special characteristics. It isn’t just Jupiter’s biggest moon, but the biggest in the entire solar system by far—about the size of Mercury and our moon combined.It ...

To slow down enough to be captured into Jupiter orbit, the probe must slam on the brakes, which it will do by firing its main engine for 35 minutes, beginning at 11:18 p.m. EDT (0318 GMT) tonight.

Galileo was the first spacecraft to examine Jupiter and its moons for an extended period. It launched from the payload bay of space shuttle Atlantis in 1989, got some speed boosts by swinging past ...

The spacecraft's 1.8-billion-mile trek out to Jupiter will take over five years. Once it's there, it will spend several years making dozens of close flybys of Europa. "We're not landing on Europa.