NASA’s Juno spacecraft snapped Amalthea in March, giving us a rare view of a curious mini-moon the space agency called “the reddest object in the solar system” in a statement on May 13.

Juno was launched from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station on August 5, 2011 and will arrive in July 2016. The spacecraft is to be placed in a polar orbit to study Jupiter's composition, gravity ...

The NASA Juno spacecraft has once again amazed the world, capturing an extraordinary image of Jupiter’s atmosphere. This time, a dolphin-shaped cloud formation was spotted swimming along the gas ...

Jupiter's satellite Io is one of its largest moons. Credit: NASA / JPL-Caltech NASA's Juno spacecraft has made several close swoops by Jupiter's volcanic moon Io, and it's beamed back stunning ...

At the time of perijove, when Juno’s orbit is closest to the planet’s center, the spacecraft will be about 2,175 miles (3,500 kilometers) above Jupiter’s cloud tops and will have logged 645. ...

Jamie Carter is an award-winning reporter who covers the night sky. Jupiter as seen by NASA's Juno spacecraft on Sept. 20, 2024 during its 65th perijove, and processed ... [+] by Jackie Branc.

The spacecraft’s most recent dispatch is from its 66th perijove, completed on October 23, which also took Juno close to ...

The north polar region of Jupiter’s volcanic moon Io was captured by NASA’s Juno during the spacecraft’s 57th close pass of the gas giant on Dec. 30, 2023. Data from recent flybys is helping ...

Nasa's Juno probe is bearing down on Io, the most volcanically active world in the Solar System. It's in the process of making a series of ever closer flybys. Already, the spacecraft has passed by ...

LOS ANGELES, Dec. 13 (Xinhua) -- Scientists with NASA's Juno mission to Jupiter have discovered that the volcanoes on Jupiter's moon Io are each likely powered by their own chamber of roiling hot ...