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NASA has successfully restored a damaged camera aboard its Juno spacecraft orbiting Jupiter. The recovery of JunoCam, a ...
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 ...
Recent observations of Jupiter's powerful magnetic field by NASA's Juno spacecraft have uncovered a never-before-documented ...
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's been studying Jupiter for nine years. Conditions are super harsh, and the camera's been taking a beating.
The solar wind plasma goes from moving at about 400 kilometers per second (900,000 miles per hour) to being diverted and ...
Plasma waves are a critical element to understanding the many mysteries of the gas giant’s turbulent, magnetically powerful ...
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Scientists with the NASA Juno mission have released the findings from the spacecraft’s first two orbits around Jupiter — and the results are unlike anything they expected.
Juno's next close approach to Jupiter is expected on July 11. And then, for the first time, the spacecraft will pass directly above Jupiter's Great Red Spot. "Stay tuned," Bolton said.
Juno will investigate other features as well before ending its mission with an intentional death dive into Jupiter's atmosphere in February 2018 (a move designed to ensure that the probe doesn't ...
Juno flew close to Jupiter's largest moon, Ganymede, in 2021 and then visited Europa for a fleeting encounter in September 2022. Io, slightly larger than Earth's Moon, ...