Astronomers may be just weeks away from an unprecedented opportunity to learn more about our solar system’s interstellar ...

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 ...

"We study cometary bodies because they act as time capsules, sealing in material from their formation billions of years ago." ...

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 ...

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 ...

After nearly 10 years, NASA’s Jupiter explorer Juno is likely no longer operating with its latest mission extension ending during the ongoing U.S. government shutdown.

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, ...

NASA’s Juno probe, which revealed new details about Jupiter’s atmosphere and storms, may have stopped transmitting data after years of exploration.

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 ...

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 ...