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 ...

NASA's Juno spacecraft has provided new insight into Jupiter and its volcanic moon, Io. At Jupiter's north pole, powerful storms the size of Australia or bigger are wrapped in 100 mph winds. After ...

NASA's Juno spacecraft has provided new insight into Jupiter and its volcanic moon, Io. Credit: NASA / JPL-Caltech / SwRI / MSSS / Alain Mirón Velázquez At Jupiter's north pole, powerful storms the ...

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 ...

A NASA spacecraft is ready to set sail for Jupiter and its moon Europa, one of the best bets for finding life beyond Earth. Europa Clipper will peer beneath the moon’s icy crust where an ocean is ...

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 ...

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 ...

The ocean on Ganymede may have more water than all the water on Earth. In this artist’s concept, the moon Ganymede orbits the giant planet Jupiter. NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope observed aurorae on ...

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 ...

For nearly a decade, a large probe has braved the harsh Jovian environment to bring us mesmerizing, close-up views of Jupiter and its moons. But sometimes, the gas giant gets the best of it. The Juno ...

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 ...

A mission to Jupiter launched over a decade ago is about to complete its work with a fiery plunge into the planet’s depths sometime this month. NASA’s Juno orbiter spacecraft reached Jupiter in 2016, ...