It's a world home to gigantic storms bigger than Australia, 100-mph winds pummeling its northern reaches and a rocky moon riddled with lava-spewing volcanoes. Welcome to Jupiter. NASA scientists have ...

Update, June 2, 2025: A previous version of this article stated that the Juno mission would perform a “death dive” into Jupiter in September 2025. This has been corrected with details of its planned ...

There's some good news and just-okay news about NASA's mighty little spacecraft Juno, which has been orbiting Jupiter since 2016. The good news is that, on Wednesday (April 9), the agency announced ...

The U.S. government shut down the same day Juno's last mission extension expired. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. NASA's spinning ...

With all of the worrying things happening here, on earth, one way to take your mind off them is to look at the beauty of the cosmos. Luckily, NASA is still out there exploring outer space and ...

NASA’s Europa Clipper is about to use Mars’ gravitational pull to slingshot itself as it makes its way to Jupiter’s fourth-largest moon later this week. The craft launched from the agency’s Kennedy ...

Using the thermal equivalent of giving it a sharp whack, NASA repaired the camera of its Jupiter-orbiting Juno probe from 370 million miles (590 million km) away after the instrument was put out of ...

NASA's technology continues to make stunning discoveries. NASA modeling recently supported research regarding the end of life on Earth. In addition, NASA's James Webb Space Telescope caught ...

Jupiter will make its closest approach to Earth in 59 years on Monday, according to NASA. The largest planet in our solar system, the gas giant will be at opposition, meaning Earth is directly between ...

New evidence from an old NASA mission supports the theory that Jupiter's moon Callisto is in fact an ocean world. Credit: NASA / JPL / DLR A moon of Jupiter about the size of Mercury likely has a ...