This definitively demonstrates that the Galileo probe's entry site was an anomalously dry, desert-like region." While there are still many questions surrounding how Jupiter formed, scientists ...

On this date, Jan. 7, 1610, astronomer Galileo Galilei, with a homemade telescope, noticed three points of light near Jupiter. Initially believing they were distant stars, Galileo’s repeated ...

Using data collected by NASA's Juno spacecraft as it flew past Jupiter's highly volcanic moon Io in late 2023 and again in ...

In the 1990s, however, NASA's Galileo spacecraft captured magnetic measurements near Callisto that suggested that its ice shell surface—much like that of Europa, another moon of Jupiter—may ...

The last time scientists had any data on Jupiter’s water it came from the Galileo probe. That mission, which wrapped up in late 1995, returned results that suggested that Jupiter was extremely ...

Using data collected by NASA’s Juno spacecraft as it flew past Jupiter’s highly volcanic moon Io in late 2023 and again in ...

NASA's Galileo mission, which launched into space in 1989, was designed to study Jupiter, its moons, and its surrounding invisible magnetic bubble, called the magnetosphere. The spacecraft had 35 ...

The Jupiter orbiter is the second spacecraft to visit the moon and the gas giant it orbits, after the Galileo probe. The next big moment for Juno is coming in Sept. 2022 when the probe settles in ...

Stretching science's boundaries Jupiter is both the largest planet ... The Hubble Space Telescope and NASA 's space probes Voyager, Galileo, Juno have already picked up some clues either by ...