Jupiter and Saturn have always been some of the coolest-looking and intriguing planets to laypeople – and now, scientists are coming through with some new information for us. The data come from ...

NASA explains that, as the second large moon out from Jupiter, Europa is quite deep inside Jupiter's magnetosphere, the immense magnetic envelope generated by Jupiter's powerful magnetic field.

The ambitious mission won't actually look for life, but it should find out if the presumed ocean provides a habitable ...

For the launch, the spacecraft was placed inside the protective nose cone atop the rocket. The spacecraft will not take a straight path to Jupiter. Instead, it is due to fly by Mars, then back by ...

New observations of Jupiter’s Great Red Spot captured by ... the biggest in the solar system — that Earth could fit inside it. Although storms are generally considered unstable, the Great ...

NASA's Europa Clipper has embarked on its long voyage to Jupiter, where it will investigate Europa, a moon with an enormous subsurface ocean that may have conditions to support life. The ...

Europa passes through Jupiter’s bands of radiation as it orbits the gas giant, making it especially menacing for spacecraft. That’s why Clipper’s electronics are inside a vault with dense ...