NASA's Juno spacecraft has snuck a peek at one of Jupiter's largest inner moons. During a close flyby, the spacecraft got a look at Jupiter's moon Thebe from just 3,100 miles (5,000 kilometers) away.
NASA's Europa Clipper is on a 1.8 billion mile journey to explore an icy ocean that could hold the secrets of life beyond ...
NASA’s Juno spacecraft has captured an extraordinary image of Thebe, the second-largest of Jupiter’s inner moons, providing new insights into the planet’s distant ring system. This close flyby, which ...
Jupiter is eleven times wider than Earth and over 300 times more massive. Beautiful from a distance, all swirling cloud bands ...
A NASA probe peered beneath the surface of the most volcanic world in the solar system, revealing scorching heat rising from below its crust. During two recent close flybys of Jupiter’s moon Io, ...
As NASA's Juno flew around Jupiter last week, the spacecraft snapped a photo of an object before it could make a clean getaway. That clunky, bumpy thing at the far right edge of the frame is Thebe, ...
Jupiter hosts more than 100 moons, with most attention focused on the four Galilean moons: Io, Europa, Ganymede and Callisto.
The frozen worlds orbiting Jupiter and Saturn might be encapsulated in "fluffy ice" that could send landers spiraling down a pit of icy space slush, scientists warn. Reading time 4 minutes Of the ...