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The spacecraft was launched on a rocket from French Guiana (Pic: European Space Agency)

Jupiter moons mission launches on second attempt

A European Space Agency probe has launched on a mission to explore Jupiter's icy, ocean-bearing moons, a day after the first attempt was called off due to the threat of lightning.

News Lens • 14 Apr 23

Artwork of Jupiter and its largest four (Galilean) moons. From left to right: Io, Callisto, Jupiter (with the shadow of Io cast upon it), Ganymede and Europa.

Search for alien life extends to Jupiter's icy moons

Could vast, long-hidden oceans be teeming with alien life in our very own Solar System?

News Lens • 12 Apr 23

Jupiter - our solar system's largest planet (Courtesy: NASA, ESA, CSA, Jupiter ERS Team; image processing by Judy Schmidt)

Jupiter as you've never seen it before

The world's newest and biggest space telescope is showing Jupiter as never before – auroras and all.

News Lens • 23 Aug 22

Jupiter's ice-encrusted moon Ganymede. Courtesy: NASA

NASA's Juno spacecraft flies past Ganymede and Jupiter

NASA's Juno spacecraft flew closer to Jupiter's ice-encrusted moon Ganymede than any spacecraft in more than two decades, less than a day later, Juno made its 34th flyby of Jupiter. This animation provides a "starship captain" point of view of each flyby.

News Lens • 15 Jul 21

Nasa craft snaps close-up of Jupiter's Great Red Spot

NASA has released a series of stunning images of a raging storm on Jupiter, known as the Great Red Spot, snapped earlier this week as an unmanned probe zipped by.

Science • 13 Jul 17

The storm looks like a churning red knot on the planet's surface

Spacecraft to overfly Jupiter's raging red spot

An unmanned NASA spacecraft is about to fly over a massive storm raging on Jupiter, in a long-awaited a journey that could shed new light on the forces driving the planet's Great Red Spot.

Science • 10 Jul 17

Europa is about 3,100 km in diameter, slightly smaller than Earth's moon

Evidence of water plumes on Jupiter's moon Europa

Astronomers have spotted evidence of water vapour plumes rising from Jupiter's moon Europa, a finding that might make it easier to learn whether life exists in the warm, salty ocean hidden beneath its icy surface.

Science • 27 Sep 16

A handout composite photograph, made available by NASA today, shows a dual view of Jupiter taken on 23 August when NASA's Juno spacecraft was 4.4 million kms from Jupiter

Spacecraft Juno skims clouds of Jupiter

A spacecraft has skimmed the clouds of Jupiter in a record-breaking close approach to the giant planet.

News • 28 Aug 16

The picture is made from some of the first images taken by JunoCam (Pic: NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/MSSS)

Juno sends back first in-orbit view of Jupiter

NASA'S Juno spacecraft sent its first in-orbit view of Jupiter since it arrived at the planet on July 4th after a five-year journey.

Science • 13 Jul 16

Juno's instruments and camera could provide insights into the history of the solar system

Space probe Juno arrives in orbit around Jupiter

The Juno space probe has arrived in orbit around Jupiter in a historic moment for astronomy after a five-year, 2.3 billion-kilometre voyage.

News • 05 Jul 16

An artist's illustration of the space probe

NASA spacecraft nears Jupiter for key mission

A NASA spacecraft will tonight have one-shot to slip into Jupiter's orbit for the start of a 20-month-long dance around the solar system's largest planet to learn how and where it formed.

News • 04 Jul 16