Although the Juno mission was expected to last only a few years, the spacecraft is still going strong despite operating in ...

An artist's impression of JUICE arriving in the Jovian system (celestial bodies and distances not to scale). On Thursday, April 13, the Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer (JUICE) will lift off from the ...

Sometime in September, Juno’s orbit will degrade naturally, and Jupiter’s gravity will pull the spacecraft in, and the atmosphere will consume it. Visit www.science.nasa.gov/mission/juno/ for the ...

Europe's first-ever Jupiter mission is officially underway. The European Space Agency's (ESA) JUICE spacecraft launched atop an Ariane 5 rocket from Europe's Spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana on ...

Editor's note: ESA has postponed the launch of its JUICE Jupiter mission due to the risk of lightning at the launch site. The launch is now scheduled for Friday (April 14) at 8:14 a.m. EDT (1214 GMT).

New measurements have revealed that Jupiter — the largest planet in our solar system — is actually smaller and more flattened ...

(CNN) -- The European Space Agency has sent a spacecraft to explore Jupiter and three of its largest and most intriguing moons. The Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer mission, or Juice, launched Friday at ...

The ESA’s Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer mission — ‘Juice’ — successfully launched today from Europe’s spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana. The launch was supposed to take place yesterday but was postponed ...

(CNN) — The European Space Agency has sent a spacecraft to explore Jupiter and three of its largest and most intriguing moons. The Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer mission, or Juice, launched Friday at 8:14 ...

The historic JUICE (JUpiter ICy moons Explorer) mission to the planet Jupiter is scheduled by the European Space Agency to blast into orbit today (April 13), and one of its critical components comes ...

The JUICE spacecraft will slingshot around the Moon and Earth in quick succession on its way to Jupiter’s moons. Next week, the Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer (JUICE) probe will whip past both the Moon ...

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