Destination: Jupiter promises to shed light on the science and technology behind NASA’s ambitious mission a few days before Juno enters Jupiter’s orbit.

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 ...

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.

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

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 ...

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 ...

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.

In early August, NASA will launch the next major Jupiter mission, called Juno, a spacecraft that will rendezvous with Jupiter in 2016 and help shed light on the planet's greatest mysteries, which ...

NASA’s Juno mission will arrive at Jupiter and begin its orbit insertion maneuver at 4:18 am BST (5:18 am CEST, 03:18 UTC) on the morning of 5 July 2016 [late evening on 4 July in the USA]. J… ...

— -- Scientists have unveiled images of a brilliant X-ray aurora on Jupiter triggered by a massive solar storm slamming into the solar system's largest planet. In the color-enhanced images ...

The cosmos is full of mysteries waiting to be solved, and some of them appear especially eerie with the arrival of Halloween. A haunting “face” on Jupiter and a ghostly, skeletal hand-shaped ...