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Launched in October 2024, Europa Clipper is on a 1.8-billion-mile (2.9-billion-kilometer) journey to study Jupiter and its moons. On March 1, it flew within 550 miles (884 kilometers) of Mars' surface ...
American space agency NASA says it used the gravity assist maneuver the Europa Clipper conducted back in March to test the ...
NASA's Juno probe's been studying Jupiter for nine years. Conditions are super harsh, and the camera's been taking a beating.
Highlights include a morning meetup between Jupiter and Venus, a chance to see the Perseid meteor shower, and a window into our own sun's destiny.
NASA Juno spacecraft data has been used to create an animation of "Steeple Mountain" and a lava lake known as Loki Patera on ...
(NASA is virtually certain it won’t find fish people, but that hasn’t stopped scientists from dreaming.) Previous missions to Jupiter have given scientists a rough sketch of the moon, but ...
NASA’s twin Pioneer spacecraft and then two Voyagers swept past Jupiter in the 1970s. The Voyagers provided the first detailed photos of Europa but from quite a distance.
Here's everything to know about NASA's latest findings, announced Tuesday, April 29. More about Io: Jupiter moon of Io is famed for its volcanoes. NASA just spotted the most powerful one yet ...
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," and the space agency released new images of the flyby.
Jupiter's moon Io—a volcano world orbiting the planet once every 42 hours—casts its shadow on the Jovian clouds in this image from NASA's Juno spacecraft.
On Sept. 7, 2023, NASA’s Juno mission captured an image of an area in one of Jupiter’s northern regions called Jet N7, according to NASA.