Observations from NASA’s Juno spacecraft reveal that Jupiter’s strong magnetic field and the unique properties of its plasma ...

NASA's Voyager 2 spacecraft made its closest approach to Jupiter. It came within 354,000 miles (570,000 kilometers) of the planet's cloud tops. Voyager 2 was one of two space probes launched by NASA ...

The spacecraft is taking a long, roundabout route to Jupiter, covering 4 billion miles (6.6 billion kilometers) It will swoop within 125 miles (200 kilometers) of Callisto and 250 miles (400 ...

(Gray News) – It was a big day last week for the European Space Agency as it launched its Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer, or JUICE, to explore our galaxy’s gas-giant planet. However, many viewers ...

A SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket lifted off from Cape Canaveral, Fla., on Monday morning carrying a NASA probe designed to explore Jupiter’s icy moon Europa and search for the building blocks of life.

The Europa Clipper launched at 12:06 p.m. EDT on a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket from Launch Complex 39A at the Kennedy Space Center. Ahead of the Clipper is a six-year, 1.8 billion-mile journey to ...

A NASA spacecraft rocketed away Monday on a quest to explore Jupiter’s tantalizing moon Europa and reveal whether its vast hidden ocean might hold the keys to life.

Europa is an icy moon of Jupiter and one of ... (1974 flyby of Jupiter system). The spacecraft made a ... Galileo, however, called the moons the Medicean planets in honor of the Medici family.

The U.S. Explorer roared into space on a Jupiter-C missile, developed as a byproduct of the Army's Jupiter intermediate-range ballistic' missile. And Explorer's victorious streak ...