To get somewhere in outer space, you can’t exactly drive in a straight line. Orbits are tricky things, and sending a probe to ...

An issue with one of NASA's suppliers has jeopardized the agency's ambitious Europa Clipper mission. Clipper's metal-oxide-semiconductor field-effect transistors, called MOSFETs for short, are ...

NASA's Juno spacecraft has discovered a giant volcanic hot spot on the surface of Jupiter's hellish moon Io. The eruptions in ...

Throughout these campaigns, the spacecraft will plunge into one of the worst environments imaginable, bathed by the intense radiation that surrounds Jupiter. The massive planet supports an ...

Jupiter's Great Red Spot appears blue instead ... is a type of electromagnetic radiation that lies between visible light and X-rays on the electromagnetic spectrum. UV light is not visible to ...

20, when it dipped close to Jupiter's cloud tops. The first mission to orbit an outer planet from pole to pole, Juno is armored with a titanium radiation vault to help protect it against Jupiter ...

[UPDATE: Tuesday, July 5, 11.00am] Juno, the US$1.1 billion Nasa spacecraft now approaching its orbit of Jupiter will have to dodge debris and extreme radiation on its high-stakes mission to ...

The mission ends in 2034 with a planned crash into Ganymede — Jupiter’s biggest moon and the solar system’s too. There’s more radiation around Jupiter than anywhere else in our solar ...

ESA’s Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer ... Any extension of the mission seems unlikely, though not impossible. “In the radiation environment we know that the solar panels will not work as they ...

NASA detects mysterious 'chirping' signals, or chorus waves, 165,000 km from Earth, revealing surprising energy transfer in ...

Europa Clipper - one of the most advanced spacecraft ever sent to another planet - aims to explore Jupiter's icy moon ...