The images of the new volcano were taken by NASA's Juno spacecraft and its JunoCam as it made a flyby of Io — the solar ...

SpaceX is watching the weather ahead of Tuesday's Falcon 9 launch of the European Commission's Galileo L13 mission, which ...

A long-awaited mission to Europa, an icy moon of Jupiter, is on track to launch in just a few weeks. (Story aired on All ...

Galileo was the first spacecraft to fly by an asteroid in the asteroid belt. Ida was actually the second one it visited after another flyby of the asteroid Gaspra in 1991.

On Aug. 28, 1993, NASA's Galileo spacecraft flew by the asteroid Ida on its way Jupiter. Galileo was the first spacecraft to fly by an asteroid in the asteroid belt. Ida was actually the second one it ...

Suspected since Voyager 1 and 2 visited Jupiter for the first time in the late 1970s, that ocean was confirmed by NASA's Galileo spacecraft in the late 1990s. The subterranean ocean is believed to ...

The most volcanic world in our solar system has sprouted a new volcano. And its lava flows are enormous. Jupiter's molten moon Io has been surveyed by a number of passing spacecraft, allowing ...

NASA's Galileo spacecraft captured the black and white image in 1997, and Juno's views are from February 2024. The entirety of the volcanic feature sprawls over an area about 180 km by 180 km (112 ...

A NASA mission launching in October will send cameras and other scientific equipment to see, among other things, whether ...

by the agency's aptly-named Galileo orbiter in the 1990s, which made a dozen close flybys. The spacecraft discovered that Jupiter's magnetic field was disrupted around Europa, implying an ...