Jupiter and Earth were near their closest all year, but it still took over half an hour for a signal to go from Earth to the ...

Mission scientists "waited with bated breath" to see if their last-minute operation to save a spacecraft's camera hundreds of millions of miles away had worked.

NASA's Juno probe is coming to the end of a fantastic mission, but it's still got some tricks up its sleeve yet.

Plasma waves are a critical element to understanding the many mysteries of the gas giant’s turbulent, magnetically powerful ...

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The solar wind plasma goes from moving at about 400 kilometers per second (900,000 miles per hour) to being diverted and ...

Juno’s approach trajectory was carefully planned to put the craft into a 53-day polar orbit that avoided Jupiter’s radiation belts and kept its solar panels constantly exposed to sunlight.