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Observations from NASA’s Juno spacecraft reveal that Jupiter’s strong magnetic field and the unique properties of its plasma ...
Juno is one of NASA’s most daring missions, flying closer to Jupiter than any spacecraft before it. With every orbit, Juno uncovers more about the gas giant’s atmosphere, auroras, and storm systems.
"Eight minutes later, the orbiter started receiving data from the descent probe, which slammed into the top of the Jovian atmosphere at a comet-like speed of 170,000 kilometers per hour," NASA ...
Astronomers have achieved a first in exoplanet hunting by using the Hubble Space Telescope images to investigate a mysterious ...
Europa Clipper is NASA’s bold mission to investigate whether Jupiter’s moon Europa could harbor life beneath its frozen ...
NASA’s Europa Clipper mission will spend five and a half years cruising to the Jovian system and then conduct nearly 50 flybys of the enigmatic moon to investigate its many mysteries.
The mission lifted off at 12:06 p.m. ET amid favorable weather conditions for the Europa Clipper to begin its six-year journey to Jupiter's icy moon Europa.
NASA's flagship Europa Clipper spacecraft will explore Jupiter's icy moon Europa on a mission to understand how habitable Jovian satellite, with its vast salty ocean wrapped in a thick ice crust ...
For centuries, Europa, one of Jupiter’s largest moons, was not considered a promising place to look for life. But in the mid-1990s, NASA’s Galileo mission flew close to the moon and spotted ...
After an exhaustive review of suspect transistors in NASA's Europa Clipper spacecraft, NASA managers have cleared the probe for launch next month as planned on a $5.2 billion mission to find out ...
Irregular mare patches (IMPs) are potential signs of recent volcanic activity on the Moon. This is an image of the IMP known as Ina. NASA/GSFC/Arizona State University The same should be true of ...
Jupiter’s four largest moons – the main focus of Juice’s mission – are named after protagonists in the ‘love affairs’ of Zeus, the equivalent of Jupiter in Greek mythology. This image of planet Earth ...