NASA's mission to send a spacecraft to scour Jupiter's moon Europa for signs of life appears back on track after Hurricane ...

One of Jupiter’s biggest moons has the potential to harbour life in a subsurface sea. The nature of its core will provide ...

Both NASA and Firefly Aerospace say Blue Ghost remains healthy as it prepares to make for lunar orbit sometime next month.

Credit: Thomas Bresson More detailed observations from NASA’s Galileo spacecraft that orbited Jupiter between 1995 and 2003 and completed 11 close encounters with Europa revealed that long linear ...

The first close-up images of Io since NASA’s Galileo mission in 1997 revealed the emergence of a fresh volcano with multiple lava flows and volcanic deposits covering an area of about 180 ...

Amalthea, however, is tricky to spot even when you have a spacecraft. NASA's Galileo mission imaged Amalthea in 1999. Large impact craters are visible. American astronomer Edward Emerson Barnard ...

Image of Europa taken by Voyager 2 during its 1979 flyby of Jupiter. More detailed observations from NASA's Galileo spacecraft that orbited Jupiter between 1995 and 2003 and completed 11 close ...

Europa's frozen, fissured surface, seen here in a colorized mosaic image from the Galileo spacecraft, hides a liquid ocean that may hold all the ingredients needed for life. Three key ingredients ...

The relay communications subsystems and the link between the Galileo probe and the orbiter are also described briefly. The chapter is at a functional level, intended to illuminate the unique mission ...