After braking into a highly elliptical path around Jupiter on July 4, NASA's Juno spacecraft finally reached the high-point of its initial 53.4-day orbit Sunday, setting up a long plunge back toward ...

The Juno spacecraft now orbiting Jupiter has a suite of science instruments which will investigate the existence of a possible solid planetary core, map Jupiter’s intense magnetic field, measure the ...

Juno carries a suite of nine instruments to explore Jupiter from its interior to its atmosphere. It will map Jupiter's gravity and magnetic fields and track how much water is in the atmosphere. Its ...

An artist's concept of the Juno spacecraft orbiting Jupiter. NASA/JPL-Caltech NASA’s solar-powered Juno spacecraft will make its fourth flyby of Jupiter on Thursday morning, the space agency announced ...

Can a camera as far away as almost 600 million kilometers be repaired with no more than a burst of heat and an act of engineering wishful thinking? That was the question NASA engineers were confronted ...

The mission team of NASA's Jupiter-orbiting Juno spacecraft executed a deep-space move in December 2023 to repair its JunoCam imager to capture photos of the Jovian moon Io. Results from the ...

Juno successfully entered orbit around Jupiter July 4. Its suite of instruments will be switched on this week and will begin sending useful data late next month. “Our official science collection phase ...