After a 1.74 billion mile journey, NASA’s Juno spacecraft is due to arrive at Jupiter on the fourth of July. It will be the fastest spacecraft ever when it arrives, traveling at 165,000 miles an ...

At “opposition” this week as Earth swings between it and the Sun, so bright and brilliant, Jupiter’s incredible journey from icy asteroid to a dominant gas giant planet is being revealed by ...

After a five-year journey, NASA's solar-powered space probe Juno has arrived in orbit around Jupiter. NASA scientists say it's the hardest thing they've ever done. NBC’s Jo Ling Kent reports for ...

This concept drawing shows Juno in orbit around the solar system's largest planet. NASA/JPL It’s already broken records—the vessel is the farthest solar-powered craft that's ventured from ...

Credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, Jupiter ERS Team; Image Processing by Judy Schmidt. Oh, Jupiter. If only the gas giant shifted its orbit slightly, becoming more eccentric (read: oval-shaped), it could ...

If Jupiter's orbit became more eccentric the team found that Earth's orbit would be pushed into becoming more eccentric too. This means at times Earth would be even closer to the sun than it ...

After originally believing the "continuously active" object in Jupiter's orbit was the first-known "Trojan asteroid" like it, scientists have issued a correction and it's just a regular comet.

The spacecraft, which launched from Florida in August 2011, will stay in Jupiter’s orbit and collect data through February 2018. 'Nail biting': Jitters as $1B Juno probe nears Jupiter.

The companion, TOI-1408, c is just 3.3 million miles from its star, meaning it completes an orbit in 2.2 Earth days. Yet this newly found planet isn't a hot Jupiter.

PASADENA, Calif. – Braving intense radiation, a NASA spacecraft reached Jupiter on Monday after a five-year voyage to begin exploring the king of the planets. Ground controllers at the NASA Jet ...