Voyager 1 took this photo of Jupiter and two of its satellites (Io, left, and Europa) on Feb. 13, 1979. Io is about 220,000 miles above Jupiter's Great Red Spot; Europa is about 375,000 miles ...

The finding could change the way astronomers understand moons dominated by subsurface global oceans in our solar system, such as Jupiter’s moon Europa ... until Voyager 1 flew by Jupiter and ...

This week, NASA released the first image from the Europa Clipper spacecraft's voyage. The image is a mosaic of a star field, created from three shots the solar-powered orbiter captured in December of ...

These pinpricks of light are actually Jupiter's four largest moons, now known as the Galilean moons: Io, Europa ... In 1979, NASA's Voyager 1 and 2 spacecraft zipped by the gas giant, taking ...

However, these new estimates, published in the peer-reviewed journal Nature Astronomy, aren't meant to determine how many people could inhabit this moon of Jupiter ... NASA's next Europa mission ...

The original mission was meant to last four years as the probe visited Jupiter and Saturn. It’s now spent 46 years in space, making Voyager 1 and its twin Voyager 2 the longest-operating ...

NASA has captured the highest-resolution photo of Europa, one of Jupiter’s moons. The image, which NASA released last week, showcases over 93 by 125 miles of surface region on the moon.

Voyager 1 visited Jupiter and Saturn and then kept on going and going. In 2012, it left our cosmic neighborhood and entered the space between stars. It was the first human-made object to leave our ...

heading towards Jupiter’s moon Europa. Launched three months ago, it has 1.6 billion miles left before reaching its destination in 2030. While on its way, the spacecraft’s star trackers are ...

Three months after its launch from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, the agency's Europa Clipper has another 1.6 ...