NASA’s Juno mission to Jupiter is by far one of the Agency’s more exciting recent operations — in just a few days it will officially reach its destination and begin sending data back about the Earth’s ...

The largest planet in our solar system rotates so quickly that it actually flings charged particles, rock, ice and dust away from it at extreme speeds. Plus, the radiation surrounding the planet will ...

As the Juno spacecraft passed through the "bow shock" outside of Jupiter's magnetosphere on June 24, the probe's instruments picked up the cacophony that accompanied the dramatic event. "The bow shock ...

NASA’s Juno spacecraft has crossed the boundary of Jupiter’s immense magnetic field. Juno’s Waves instrument recorded the encounter with the bow shock over the course of about two hours on June 24, ...

As NASA’s Juno mission continues to hurl itself toward Jupiter, the terrifying reality of flying close to the biggest and baddest planet in our solar system is starting to set in. Yesterday, the Jet ...

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NASA’s Juno spacecraft has just left the realm of the solar wind and entered the domain of Jupiter’s magnetosphere, within which all particles are manipulated by the planet’s immense magnetic field.

On Monday, the Juno spacecraft will enter Jupiter's orbit for its first pass around the giant planet, but that doesn't mean we have to wait three days for some cool Juno science. Over the past week, ...

Despite its 484-million-mile (778 million kilometers) distance, the Sun still has a measurable impact on Jupiter, generating jets of plasma around the planet. But it turns out they’ve been hiding from ...

NASA’s Juno spacecraft has officially crossed the barrier over into Jupiter’s magnetosphere, the powerful magnetic field that extends millions of miles around the planet. Within this magnetosphere, ...

Jupiter's part of space is terrifying. The largest planet in our solar system rotates so quickly that it actually flings charged particles, rock, ice and dust away from it at extreme speeds. Plus, the ...