Ganymede is Juice’s primary target. During the first, Jupiter-orbiting phase of the mission, the spacecraft will make 12 flybys of the mysterious moon. It will later transfer from orbit around Jupiter ...

An Ariane 5 rocket originally expected to launch Thursday is now set to take off Friday, boosting a $1.7 billion European Space Agency probe on a roundabout 8-year voyage to Jupiter where it will ...

JUICE has a "nuclear bunker" at its heart and needs as little power as a hair dryer. It still wouldn't survive for long at Europa. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...

As the Solar System-wide quest to find the building blocks of life carries on, humanity's isolated a few places most likely to show us the clues we're looking for. More often than not, the public's ...

Orbiting Jupiter, NASA's Juno spacecraft streaked past Ganymede on Monday, beaming back the first close-up views of the largest moon in the solar system since the Galileo orbiter last flew past in ...

A European spacecraft rocketed away Friday on a decadelong quest to explore Jupiter and three of its icy moons that could hold buried oceans.The journey began with a perfect morning liftoff by ...

Europe's Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer (JUICE) spacecraft will set out on an ambitious explorative tour of Jupiter's moons next week. But the mission will only take the briefest glimpse of the ...