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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
JunoCam, the visible light imager aboard NASA’s Juno, captured this enhanced-color view of Jupiter’s northern high latitudes from an altitude of about 36,000 miles (58,000 kilometers) above the giant ...
LOS ANGELES (AP) – A solar-powered spacecraft is spinning toward Jupiter for the closest encounter with the biggest planet in our solar system. NASA’s Juno spacecraft fires its main rocket engine late ...
PASADENA, Calif. — The best celebration this Independence Day wasn’t around a barbecue or fireworks show, but in a dark room filled with NASA engineers. After hours of anticipation, team members broke ...
Io, one of the four Galilean moons of Jupiter, as seen by the Galileo probe, circa 1997. (Photo by Space Frontiers/Hulton Archive/Getty Images) New data from NASA’s $1.2 billion Juno spacecraft — now ...