mission draws to a close September 21 with a plunge into Jupiter’s atmosphere. NASA has scheduled a Space Science Update (SSU) at 2 p.m. EDT, Wed., Sept. 17, in the James E. Webb Auditorium at NASA Dr ...

On Dec. 28, 2000, NASA’s Galileo spacecraft discovered auroras on Ganymede, Jupiter’s largest moon. Galileo launched in 1989 ...

Normally when NASA publishes exciting new discoveries it's thanks to data that just arrived from one of its many pieces of high-tech space hardware. NASA's Galileo isn't around anymore, having dipped ...

The year was 1995. Hillary Clinton’s husband was prepping to run for reelection. Coolio’s ‘Gangsta’s Paradise’ was song of the year. Toy Story was blowing minds. And on December 7, NASA’s Galileo ...

A review of data captured by NASA's Galileo spacecraft as it orbited Jupiter in the 1990s indicates it likely flew through a plume of water vapor spewing from cracks in the surface of the moon Europa, ...

When Galileo Galilei turned his telescope to Jupiter in 1610, he uncovered the planet’s four large moons, as well as a new vision of the cosmos. Not everything had to orbit Earth. NASA’s first ...

Europa’s “wall-demon” scar resembles lake stars on Earth, prompting researchers to investigate whether it indicates pockets of water beneath the moon’s frozen surface ...

In what seemed to be an artsy portrait of the planet's natural satellite, NASA uploaded a usual sighting of the moon in many color variations. That was the time when the probe caught some glimpses of ...

NASA technicians are setting the agency?s Galileo spacecraft on its final path as they aim the eight-year mission onto a collision course with the planet Jupiter. Galileo, which has captured ...

A new analysis of data from NASA's Galileo spacecraft reveals a subsurface "ocean" of magma beneath the surface of Jupiter's volcanic moon Io. The finding is the first direct confirmation of such a ...