On 5, 2002, NASA's old Galileo spacecraft was almost out of fuel. But the Jupiter mission still had some science to do. ‘On ...

On October 29, 1991, the Galileo spacecraft flew by the asteroid Gaspra on its way to Jupiter. ‘On This Day in Space’ Video ...

NASA is set to launch a jumbo spacecraft, Europa Clipper, to see if an icy moon of Jupiter has the characteristics of a habitable world.

To take the guided tour of Europa, visit trek.nasa.gov/europa, click on the "hamburger" icon on the top left of the screen, ...

How many moons does Jupiter have? Scientists have discovered dozens of them, but the answer may be more complicated than it ...

An Apollo 10 photograph of Earth taken from 100,000 miles away. NOAA’s GOES-East satellite captured this stunning view of the Americas on Earth Day, April 22, 2014. This highly oblique image shot over ...

Long, sinuous fissures and ridges crisscross Europa in this color composite view from NASA’s Galileo probe, hinting at deeper geological activity that has cracked and jumbled the icy moon’s ...

6. One of the STS-103 astronauts inside Discovery's cabin took this image of the full moon backdropped against the blackness of space over Earth's horizon.

Then, in 1994, shortly before NASA’s Galileo spacecraft reached Jupiter, Prockter became a graduate student at Brown University, studying under a co-investigator of the mission’s imaging campaign.

Planetary scientists have grown increasingly certain that Europa hosts a subsurface ocean ever since NASA’s Galileo spacecraft visited Jupiter in the 1990s (SN: 2/18/02). “During the Galileo ...

Recently, a research team led by Xuesong Mei and Jianlei Cui from Xi’an Jiaotong University has made significant progress in ...

A Taranaki man fascinated with space is working on a team that has sent a space probe to one of Jupiter's moons, to learn ...