On Dec. 27, 2024, NASA's Juno spacecraft swooped by the volcanic world Io. It witnessed a giant eruption. As the space agency's basketball court-sized craft orbits Jupiter, it swings near the gas ...

Space watchers are questioning if NASA’s Juno spacecraft could have observed 3I/Atlas, but the agency’s silence leaves the ...

After nearly 10 years, Nasa’s Jupiter explorer Juno is likely no longer operating, with its latest mission extension ending during the ongoing U.S. government shutdown. The Juno spacecraft launched ...

Update, June 2, 2025: A previous version of this article stated that the Juno mission would perform a “death dive” into Jupiter in September 2025. This has been corrected with details of its planned ...

NASA’s Juno mission launched Aug. 5, 2011, and traveled 1.7 billion miles on a five-year journey to the king of the planets, Jupiter. Juno arrived in July 2016 with mission objective of solving ...

The U.S. government shut down the same day Juno's last mission extension expired. NASA's spinning spacecraft studying the satellites of the solar system's largest celestial body (aside from the sun), ...

The mission team of NASA's Jupiter-orbiting Juno spacecraft executed a deep-space move in December 2023 to repair its JunoCam imager to capture photos of the Jovian moon Io. Results from the ...

This Saturday at 5:51 a.m. PDT, (8:51 a.m. EDT, 12:51 UTC) NASA’s Juno spacecraft will get closer to the cloud tops of Jupiter than at any other time during its prime mission. At the moment of closest ...

NASA’s Juno spacecraft has returned new images of Jupiter after its 66th close flyby as it enters the final year of its mission. The $1 billion spacecraft completed its latest close flyby on Oct. 23, ...