A new analysis of data from NASA’s Galileo spacecraft reveals a subsurface “ocean” of magma–either molten or partially molten–beneath the surface of Jupiter’s volcanic moon Io. The finding, from a ...

LOS ANGELES - Since 1989, the camera on NASA's Galileo spacecraft has captured a comet slamming into Jupiter, volcanoes erupting on one of its moons and the first known moon orbiting an asteroid. On ...

Introduction: Meeting the Grand Challenge -- Chapter 1: The Importance of the Galileo Project -- Chapter 2: From Conception to Congressional Approval -- Chapter 3: The Struggle To Launch Galileo: ...

In the end, it was the hint of life on an icy moon that doomed the Galileo spacecraft to a fiery death. This afternoon, the NASA spacecraft will end its 2.8-billion-mile odyssey with a suicidal plunge ...

Using data collected by NASA's Juno spacecraft as it flew past Jupiter's highly volcanic moon Io in late 2023 and again in ...

What type of lander could touch down on Jupiter's volcanic moon, Io? This is what a recent paper presented at the AIAA 2025 Regional Student Conference hopes to address as a team of student engineers ...

The puzzling, fascinating surface of Jupiter’s icy moon Europa looms large in this view made from images taken by NASA’s Galileo spacecraft in the late 1990s. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech. The ...

The NASA spacecraft tasked with uncovering the secrets of Jupiter, king of the planets, is running out of time. The Juno probe has already survived far longer than anticipated—its path around the ...