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 ...

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.

Using the thermal equivalent of giving it a sharp whack, NASA repaired the camera of its Jupiter-orbiting Juno probe from 370 ...

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 first entered safe mode at 5:17 a.m. EDT, about an hour before its 71st close passage of Jupiter — called perijove," NASA said in a statement. "It went into safe mode again 45 minutes ...

Juno spacecraft data suggest an extreme compression of the planet’s magnetosphere in December 2022, caused by the solar wind, ...

Juno has also recently been imaging Jupiter’s innermost moo, Io. This world is, the most volcanic in the solar system, with eruptions orders of magnitude bigger than anything similar on Earth.

Juno has been orbiting Jupiter for more than 3,000 days. In February, the length of its orbit around Jupiter was dropped from 38 days to 33, roughly one flyby a month.

In May, Juno sent back an image of Amalthea above Jupiter’s “Great Red Spot,” an anticyclonic storm roughly the diameter of Earth that has been raging since at least 1831 and has 425 miles ...

Io, one of Jupiter’s Jovian moons, is the most volcanic place in our entire Solar System. Over the last few years NASA’s Juno ...

NASA’s Juno mission successfully executed its first of 36 orbital flybys of Jupiter today. The time of closest approach with the gas-giant world was 6:44 a.m. PDT (9:44 a.m. EDT, 13:44 UTC) when ...

The Juno spacecraft made its 49th close flyby of Jupiter earlier this year, and NASA has shared stunning images taken as it whizzed by the planet's cloud tops.