NASA is set to launch a jumbo spacecraft, Europa Clipper, to see if an icy moon of Jupiter has the characteristics of a ...

Discovered in 1610 by Italian astronomer Galileo Galilei ... and my estimates of the radiation types the spacecraft will experience, in each flyby, Europa Clipper will withstand about six to ...

By examining flyby data from the NASA spacecraft Juno ... Jupiter has 95 moons and Io, which Galileo discovered through a telescope in 1610—roughly the same size as Earth's moon—is a fiery ...

It won't land, but the robotic spacecraft will fly as close as 16 miles to the moon's frozen surface to probe oceans of ...

Katy is Managing Editor at IFLScience where she oversees editorial content from News articles to Features, and even occasionally writes some. Io is one of the largest moons of Jupiter and the ...

The NASA Juno mission orbiting Jupiter has returned a spectacular new set of images after its most recent flyby of the giant ...

For the first time, NASA is journeying to this mysterious moon to determine if it might be able to host alien life.

Back in 1610, Italian astronomer Galileo Galilei observed four ... and to study the moon’s geology. Once the spacecraft has launched it will flyby Mars in February 2025, then back to Earth ...

The moon was last observed up close by NASA’s Galileo mission, which studied it in the late 1990s. NASA’s Juno is currently ...

NASA approved the launch of the mission to study Jupiter’s moon, Europa, after reviewing the spacecraft ... Io, Ganymede, and Callisto), and the sixth-closest to the planet of all the 79 moons of ...

Planetary scientists have grown increasingly certain that Europa hosts a subsurface ocean ever since NASA’s Galileo spacecraft visited Jupiter in the 1990s (SN: 2/18/02). “During the Galileo ...

The Galileo probe flew past it in the 1990s, confirming scientists' initial hopes that the moon was more than the quiet rocky ball orbiting Earth. The excitement led scientists to formally ask ...