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NASA’s Juno spacecraft entered safe mode twice during a recent close pass of Jupiter, temporarily halting science operations. While safe mode is a normal precaution when anomalies are detected, the ...
Although the impact of Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 seems like a once-in-a-lifetime event, impacts still occur at Jupiter. You ...
A design studio's plan for a new collectible set seeks to "pin" down the pivotal probes from space exploration history. Chop ...
Decades of data collected by the Hubble Space Telescope has given an international team of astronomers fresh insight into ...
Linda Spilker, the Voyager mission’s project scientist, spoke to Gizmodo about the challenges that come with operating the ...
Jupiter Energy pitched a $10 million-plus battery project that promises major revenue—but not everyone is ready to flip the ...
Scientists say a vast region of unexpectedly high temperatures in Jupiter's upper atmosphere was caused by a massive wave of solar wind.
What can a sample return mission from Jupiter's volcanic moon, Io, teach scientists about planetary and satellite (moon) ...
NASA’s Voyager probes passed through Jupiter’s system and snapped pictures of its largest moons, also known as the Galilean Moons. These pictures and the data they gathered offered the first hints ...
Jupiter’s four largest moons – Io ... and some during what are called “ring-plane crossings”. When the Voyager 1 spacecraft ...
Astronomers finally spotted evidence of auroras on Neptune after years of searching, raising new questions about the planet.
Only one spacecraft has ever flown by: NASA’s Voyager 2 in 1989. Since then ... but the detail and clarity of the signature really shocked me.” This image of Jupiter from NASA’s James Webb Space ...