This definitively demonstrates that the Galileo probe's entry site was an anomalously dry, desert-like region." While there are still many questions surrounding how Jupiter formed, scientists ...

The latest analysis of data from the Galileo probe reveals surprising clues about Callisto, one of Jupiter's moons. These discoveries could change our understanding of this icy satellite.

Galileo Galilei, with a homemade telescope, noticed three points of light near Jupiter. Initially believing they were distant stars, Galileo’s repeated observations over several nights and realized ...

The last time scientists had any data on Jupiter’s water it came from the Galileo probe. That mission, which wrapped up in late 1995, returned results that suggested that Jupiter was extremely ...

Jupiter's moon Europa is a prime candidate for alien life. NASA is sending its biggest interplanetary spacecraft ever to ...

“Jupiter acts like a giant particle accelerator ... A flyby image from the Galileo probe taken in the 1990s is the best view NASA has had so far of the moon. “Europa Clipper’s cameras ...

Scientists have advocated for a Europa mission for decades, ever since NASA's Galileo probe found that the moon likely has a subterranean global ocean, heated by Jupiter’s gravitational forces ...

In the late 1990s, Io was studied during NASA’s Galileo mission. Currently, Jupiter and its moons are being examined by the ...

To get to Jupiter, the Clipper will first fly past Mars on March 1, using the red planet's gravity to boost its speed and bend the trajectory to send the probe back toward Earth for another ...

Though Io was discovered by Galileo in 1610 ... On November 24th, the probe completed its 66th flyby over Jupiter's cloud tops, and on December 27th, a particularly close approach to the planet ...

Europa Clipper, a NASA spacecraft named after the Jupiter moon it will study, could launch as soon as mid-October, beginning the journey to reveal if this suspected waterworld might support life.