mission draws to a close September 21 with a plunge into Jupiter’s atmosphere. NASA has scheduled a Space Science Update (SSU) at 2 p.m. EDT, Wed., Sept. 17, in the James E. Webb Auditorium at NASA Dr ...

A review of data captured by NASA's Galileo spacecraft as it orbited Jupiter in the 1990s indicates it likely flew through a plume of water vapor spewing from cracks in the surface of the moon Europa, ...

Normally when NASA publishes exciting new discoveries it's thanks to data that just arrived from one of its many pieces of high-tech space hardware. NASA's Galileo isn't around anymore, having dipped ...

On Dec. 28, 2000, NASA’s Galileo spacecraft discovered auroras on Ganymede, Jupiter’s largest moon. Galileo launched in 1989 on a mission to study Jupiter and its moons. It also flew by Venus and ...

When Galileo Galilei turned his telescope to Jupiter in 1610, he uncovered the planet’s four large moons, as well as a new vision of the cosmos. Not everything had to orbit Earth. NASA’s first ...

NASA technicians are setting the agency?s Galileo spacecraft on its final path as they aim the eight-year mission onto a collision course with the planet Jupiter. Galileo, which has captured ...

A new analysis of data from NASA's Galileo spacecraft reveals a subsurface "ocean" of magma beneath the surface of Jupiter's volcanic moon Io. The finding is the first direct confirmation of such a ...

NASA's Galileo orbiter will dart past Jupiter's moon Io on Thursday in the veteran spacecraft's last and closest flyby of any of the giant planet's four major moons. NASA's Galileo orbiter will dart ...