Juno does not fall into those protected categories, and was also zeroed-out on the President's fiscal year 2026 budget ...

Though NASA's Juno spacecraft has probed Jupiter's secrets for nearly two years, the $1 billion mission was set to crash into the planet's clouds in July. Now, however, the agency has confirmed ...

Over the past seven decades, thousands of sophisticated spacecraft have been launched on ambitious missions to look down on ...

Jupiter acts like a cosmic shield for Earth because of its enormous size and strong gravity. Its powerful gravitational pull ...

Research shows Jupiter’s strong gravitational pull may have protected Earth by keeping its orbit steady and preventing it from drifting toward the Sun.

The mission was extended until September 2025, allowing for additional orbits and flybys of Jupiter's moons like Ganymede, Europa and Io.

The ESA's Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer (JUICE), which launched in April 2023, has completed another successful flyby aimed at boosting its speed ahead of a Jupiter orbital insertion sometime in 2031.

W.M. Keck Observatory imagery of star system HR 8799 have been time-lapsed. The system hosts four planets that are more ...

At the end of October Europa Clipper will fly in line with 3I/ATLAS’ ion tail — but will any of the charged particles reach ...

On some, whipping winds send a rain of glass flying sideways; others have a core of carbon compressed into diamond. Take a ...

An academic dives into "the other space race" as countries work to send satellites and other objects into orbit around the ...