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 ...

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

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

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

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 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 ...

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

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 ...

Jupiter's moon Io is the most volcanically active ... saw a volcanic plume from an image taken by Voyager 1. "Since Morabito's discovery, planetary scientists have wondered how the volcanoes ...