On Oct. 14, 2024, NASA launched a robotic spacecraft named Europa Clipper to Jupiter’s moons. Clipper will reach the ...
The Europa Clipper mission, NASA's largest planetary science spacecraft to date, aims to determine if Jupiter's moon Europa ...
Juno also snapped pictures of Jupiter's potato-shaped inner moon, named Amalthea. With a radius of only 52 miles (84 ...
NASA's Europa Clipper mission has successfully deployed its magnetometer's boom and several antennas for its radar instrument ...
Each Monday, I pick out North America’s celestial highlights for the week ahead (which also apply to mid-northern latitudes ...
Managed by JPL and the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory, Europa Clipper is among NASA's most ambitious planetary ...
Astronomers have discovered mysterious, Earth-sized dark spots at Jupiter’s poles that appear and disappear unpredictably.
Jupiter shines brightly in the east around 7 p.m. right now. Our solar system’s largest planet is nicely placed between the horns of Taurus, the Bull.
NASA Juno spacecraft data has been used to create an animation of "Steeple Mountain" and a lava lake known as Loki Patera on ...
ESA's Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer (JUICE) spacecraft took off in April to investigate Europa, Callisto and Ganymede followed by NASA's Europa Clipper probe to study Europa up close. Both the missions ...
Mike Sori, Purdue University (THE CONVERSATION) On Oct. 14, 2024, NASA launched a robotic spacecraft named Europa Clipper to Jupiter’s moons. Clipper will reach the ice-covered Jovian moon ...
Icy moon Ganymede—which JUICE will orbit—appears as a gray, mottled orb crossing the face of Jupiter ... [+] in this image from the Hubble Space Telescope. Sixty-seven orbits of Jupiter.