NEW ORLEANS – Jupiter’s Great Red Spot is a storm like nothing this world has ever seen. This crimson-hued anticyclone features winds three times as fast as the jet stream and is big enough to ...

NASA’s Europa Clipper isn’t just a spacecraft—it’s a feat of resilience, engineered to navigate one of the most hostile ...

JUICE's sensitive electronics are encased in lead to protect against radiation. The 6,350-kilogram spacecraft also is wrapped with thermal blankets — temperatures near Jupiter hover around –230 C.

It will take Europa Clipper 5 1/2 years to reach Jupiter, where it will slip into orbit around the giant gas planet and sneak close to Europa during dozens of radiation-drenched flybys.

Yet, during its 57th close pass of Jupiter in December 2023, the spacecraft’s JunoCam camera faced an unexpected challenge: radiation damage.

Millions of kilometres from Earth, orbiting the giant Jupiter, NASA's Juno spacecraft faced a serious problem. One of its ...

Only one spacecraft remains humming at Jupiter: NASA’s Juno, which just logged its 50th orbit since 2016. Europe provided nine of Juice’s science instruments, with NASA supplying just one.

PASADENA, Calif. – Braving intense radiation, a NASA spacecraft reached Jupiter on Monday after a five-year voyage to begin exploring the king of the planets.

The punishing radiation appears to be causing the planet to shed its atmosphere at a rate of at least 1 trillion grams per ...