The European Space Agency has successfully launched its mission to Jupiter's moons after weather conditions halted yesterday's lift-off The Ariane 5 rocket launched from the ESA's spaceport in French ...

Europe's mission to the icy moons of Jupiter has blasted away from Earth. The Juice satellite was sent skyward on an Ariane-5 rocket from the Kourou spaceport in French Guiana. There was joy, relief ...

A European spacecraft is on its way to Jupiter in a mission to explore whether its ocean-bearing moons can support life. The six-tonne probe, named Juice (Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer), blasted off on ...

NASA's Jupiter Europa Clipper rocket is about to blast off into space - and you can watch the landmark launch live here. The rocket is ready to set sail for Jupiter and its moon Europa - and is being ...

A sun-powered robotic explorer named Juno is rocketing toward Jupiter on a fresh quest to discover the secret recipe for making planets. Hundreds of scientists and their families and friends cheered ...

Even gargantuan Jupiter, with its whirling superstorms and volatile temperatures, has a soft side. A team of researchers recently documented stellar winds from the Sun, squishing the planet’s ...

We're down for a very rare event this weekend that won't happen again until December 30, 2032 - at least across the Americas. Between 12:28 - 12:52 a.m. (CST) Saturday morning, Jupiter's moons Io, ...

Jupiter is absolutely beaming with X-ray light. Using the NASA’s NuSTAR space observatory, scientists observed a blast of high frequency X-rays emanating from the planet, the highest energy light ever ...

The vast team of scientists and engineers responsible for launching NASA's new Juno spacecraft to Jupiter today (Aug. 5) can finally breathe a sigh of relief after a successful liftoff, but now comes ...