NASA’s Juno spacecraft snapped Amalthea in March, giving us a rare view of a curious mini-moon the space agency called “the reddest object in the solar system” in a statement on May 13.

Jamie Carter is an award-winning reporter who covers the night sky. Jupiter as seen by NASA's Juno spacecraft on Sept. 20, 2024 during its 65th perijove, and processed ... [+] by Jackie Branc.

with enough energy to fry a spacecraft's electronics if it were to linger deep within the magnetosphere. So Europa Clipper, like NASA's Juno mission before it, will adopt an elliptical orbit that ...

NASA’s Juno spacecraft took the data that became this composite image of Europa on September 29, 2022. Note how few craters appear on Europa’s surface. NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/MSSS Image ...

Axiom Space and Prada unveiled a spacesuit for NASA's Artemis III, which will be the agency's first mission to the moon's ...

This image provided by NASA shows Jupiter's moon Europa captured by the Juno spacecraft, Sept. 29, 2022. NASA/AP, FILE Europa is the fourth largest of Jupiter's 95 moons, and planetary scientists ...

NASA's Galileo spacecraft had repeated flybys of the moon during the 1990s, passing as close as 124 miles (200 kilometers). Still in action around Jupiter, NASA's Juno spacecraft has added to ...

NASA’s Galileo spacecraft had repeated flybys of the moon during the 1990s, passing as close as 124 miles (200 kilometers). Still in action around Jupiter, NASA’s Juno spacecraft has added to ...