To prevent it from crashing on Jupiter's moon Europa, which has liquid oceans under its frozen surface, scientists will instead send Juno plunging into the giant planet in February 2018 , says Becker.

Take the spacecraft's 14-day science orbit, for example. Juno will zoom within 3,100 miles (5,000 kilometers) of Jupiter at closest approach and get all the way out beyond the orbit of the moon ...

Juno has been orbiting Jupiter for a year, and it will continue to do so for at least one more. With its 67 moons , Jupiter is kind of like a mini solar system inside our own.

The X-ray telescope observes Jupiter’s X-ray auroras from Earth, while Juno measures whatever processes take place around Jupiter. “Jupiter does this really weird thing where it pulses with a ...

NASA’s Juno spacecraft photographed Jupiter's moon Io during an Oct. 15 flyby, showing its tortured, volcanically-active surface.

Reaching a top speed of about 165,000 mph, Juno sped faster than any other human-made object has traveled, ... 11:39 p.m. — Bolton confirms Juno is officially in Jupiter’s orbit.

At its closest approach, Juno’s orbit will pass a mere 2,900 miles (4,667 kilometers) from Jupiter’s cloud tops, closer than any previous spacecraft, and it will be moving at roughly 129,000 ...

On July 4, the Juno deep space probe becomes just the second spacecraft in history to orbit Jupiter. What will be found remains to be seen, but if history is any indicator, it's likely to be very ...

Juno's launch will follow NASA's Dawn spacecraft arriving into orbit around the protoplanet Vesta, the first prolonged encounter with an object in the main asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter.

During its last perijove on May 17, 2023, Juno imaged Jupiter’s moon Io from just 22,060 miles/35,500 kilometers above. The most volcanic object in the solar system, Io spews lava from volcanoes ...