Opinions expressed by Forbes Contributors are their own. Jamie Carter is an award-winning reporter who covers the night sky. Jupiter as seen by NASA’s Juno spacecraft on April 8, 2023 during its ...

NASA detects mysterious 'chirping' signals, or chorus waves, 165,000 km from Earth, revealing surprising energy transfer in ...

Charged particles from both the Sun and Jupiter itself, as well as from the highly volcanic moon Io, are trapped by the planet's powerful magnetic field and generate huge, intense radiation belts ...

Juno is armored with a titanium radiation vault to help protect it against Jupiter’s intense radiation belts. It's helped Juno survive way beyond its original two-year mission. Jupiter as seen ...

A year from now, NASA will launch an electric spacecraft named Psyche to reach the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter. The Psyche spacecraft will rely on a solar electric propulsion system to ...

part of Jupiter's radiation environment where nobody has ever been." Juno must also avoid debris as it speeds through a belt of dust and meteorites surrounding Jupiter. "If it gets hit - even by ...