Thanks to Juno MWR data and a recent study, scientists have determined the depth of the icy shell encasing Europa.

NASA’s Juno mission launched Aug. 5, 2011, and traveled 1.7 billion miles on a five-year journey to the king of the planets, Jupiter. Juno arrived in July 2016 with mission objective of solving ...

PASADENA, Calif. -- Launched by NASA in August 2011, the spacecraft Juno is set to arrive at Jupiter on July 4. Currently cartwheeling through space, once Juno gets close enough to Jupiter, it will ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The NASA spacecraft tasked with uncovering the secrets of Jupiter, king of the planets, is running out of time. The Juno probe has ...

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. The Juno spacecraft launched ...

NASA’s Juno spacecraft has returned new images of Jupiter after its 66th close flyby as it enters the final year of its mission. The $1 billion spacecraft completed its latest close flyby on Oct. 23, ...

LOS ANGELES -- Now that the Juno spacecraft is settled in orbit around Jupiter, the real work is about to begin. Juno will fly closer to Jupiter than any other spacecraft, skipping over cloud tops and ...

Flybys of Jupiter’s fiery moon Io, carried out by NASA’s Juno spacecraft, are helping to solve the enduring mystery of why the small moon is the most volcanically active body in our solar system.

Image captured by Juno during its 66th perijove, then further processed with color enhancement by Gerald Eichstädt and Thomas Thomopoulos. NASA / JPL / SwRI / MSSS / Gerald Eichstädt / Thomas ...

NASA's Juno spacecraft has resumed normal operations after entering safe mode twice during its 71st close approach to Jupiter on April 4. Safe mode is a precautionary status that a spacecraft enters ...

A NASA spacecraft is on track to rendezvous with Jupiter after a nearly five-year journey. The space agency said Thursday the encounter between Juno and Jupiter will occur on July 4. That's when Juno ...

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 ...