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LOS ANGELES -- Now that the Juno spacecraft is settled in orbit around Jupiter, the real work is about to begin. Juno will fly closer to Jupiter than any other spacecraft, skipping over cloud tops and ...

The NASA spacecraft tasked with uncovering the secrets of Jupiter, king of the planets, is running out of time. The Juno probe has already survived far longer than anticipated—its path around the ...

An aging spacecraft more than a decade into its mission may soon undertake one of the most ambitious maneuvers in modern space exploration. According to a detailed study published on arXiv, a team of ...

Today at exactly 9:57 and 48 seconds a.m. PDT, NASA’s Juno spacecraft was 5.5 million miles (8.9 million kilometers) from its July 4th appointment with Jupiter. Over the past two weeks, several ...

PASADENA, Calif. — The best celebration this Independence Day wasn’t around a barbecue or fireworks show, but in a dark room filled with NASA engineers. After hours of anticipation, team members broke ...

NASA, Ca. — NASA’s solar-powered spacecraft “Juno” is just days away from reaching Jupiter. It’s set to start orbiting the planet July Fourth. Juno was launched in 2011 to study Jupiter. The ...

It's the tankiest of spacecraft, but even with its crazy titanium radiation vault, Juno won't survive its mission to Jupiter. Share on Facebook (opens in a new window) Share on X (opens in a new ...

After a nearly 5-year-long journey across more than 1.74 billion miles, NASA's Juno spacecraft is finally reaching Jupiter. Launched in August 2011, the basketball court-sized spacecraft will study ...

It's a world home to gigantic storms bigger than Australia, 100-mph winds pummeling its northern reaches and a rocky moon riddled with lava-spewing volcanoes. Welcome to Jupiter. NASA scientists have ...