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

The Galileo probe expanded on our knowledge of Jupiter's moon, Io, showing us just how hot and hellish the Jovian satellite ...

Galileo Galilei's telescopic discovery of Jupiter's four moons in 1610 revolutionized astronomy and supported heliocentric ...

NASA and Voyager 1 resumed communications and operations after a fault protection system switched the interstellar spacecraft ...

Their name is Voyager, and they make up the most ambitious ... They will transmit pictures and scientific data as they fly close by Jupiter, the biggest planet, and Saturn with its rings.

The idea of visiting all the outer planets was too enticing to pass up, and with the success of the Pioneer missions to Jupiter serving as dress rehearsals, the Voyager program was designed.

The Dwingeloo telescope, designed to observe signals at low frequencies, detected the farthest human spacecraft when it went ...

On this date in 2002, the Galileo probe makes it's 33rd pass by the Jovian moon, Io.

The probes were designed to take advantage of a rare alignment of outer planets, which occurs about every 176 years, to explore Jupiter and Saturn. Voyager 2 is the only spacecraft ever to fly by ...

Certain instruments were shut off on Voyager 1 in 1990 to conserve energy because those tools were no longer needed after the spacecraft completed its flybys of Jupiter and Saturn. Now ...

Voyager 1 visited Jupiter and Saturn and then kept on going and going. In 2012, it left our cosmic neighborhood and entered the space between stars. It was the first human-made object to leave our ...