To get somewhere in outer space, you can’t exactly drive in a straight line. Orbits are tricky things, and sending a probe to ...

While Io was discovered by Galileo in 1610 ... On November 24th, the probe completed its 66th flyby over Jupiter's cloud tops, and on December 27th, a particularly close approach to the planet ...

NASA officials said what Juno spotted was 'the most powerful volcanic event ever recorded on the most volcanic world in our ...

Newly understood instrumentation readings returned in the 1990s from NASA’s Galileo spacecraft in orbit of Jupiter have revealed that the craft not only encountered but also flew through ejecta ...

On this date, Jan. 17, 2002, the Galileo probe made it’s 33 rd pass of Jupiter’s moon, Io. After Voyager 1’s pass in 1979, Io was dubbed the most volcanically active place in the solar system.

Using this telescope, Galileo peered up towards the constellation Orion on January 7, 1610. His target was the planet Jupiter – an object brighter than the surrounding stars. To his surprise ...

Io has intrigued astronomers since 1610, when Galileo Galilei first discovered ... emerging from deep inside Jupiter, JIRAM probes the weather layer down to 30 to 45 miles (50 to 70 kilometers ...

an accurate estimate of the amount of water deep within Jupiter's atmosphere remained elusive. Before the Galileo probe stopped transmitting 57 minutes into its Jovian descent in December 1995 ...

Jupiter’s wild atmosphere is on full display ... American astronomer Edward Emerson Barnard discovered Amalthea in 1892. NASA’s Galileo spacecraft imaged the moon several times starting ...