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 ...

Jupiter, the giant of our Solar System, remains one of the most fascinating and mysterious planets to explore. With its immense size and powerful gravity, Jupiter holds many secrets about the ...

The technique has implications for future space missions, showing the potential for remote diagnostics and repair in deep ...

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 was originally set for a fiery death in Jupiter's atmosphere in 2021, but NASA extended its mission through September 2025 so it could observe Ganymede, Io, and Europa more closely.

Juno's "orbital insertion" means that three Lego figures are also now in orbit around Jupiter. NASA sent a Lego Galileo Galilei, Roman god Jupiter and Jupiter's wife Juno to the planet, housed ...

Juno also snapped pictures of Jupiter's potato-shaped inner moon, named Amalthea. With a radius of only 52 miles (84 kilometers), Amalthea is significantly smaller than Earth 's moon.

Juno has only one opportunity to get into Jupiter’s orbit. If anything goes wrong during the engine firing and Juno blows past the planet, that’s it for the mission.

On Aug. 27, 2016, Juno experienced its first close approach of Jupiter, or perijove, sweeping just 2,600 miles (4,200 km) above Jupiter’s clouds, closer than any spacecraft in history.

Juno will fly within 2,600 miles of Jupiter, closer than any previous satellite. Over its 20-month mission, it will have to withstand a brutal onslaught of radiation from the solar system’s most ...

NASA’s Juno spacecraft has completed its first flyby around Jupiter with its instruments switched on — and it sent us back the very first up close images of the gas giant’s north pole. The ...