On November 5, 2002, NASA's old Galileo spacecraft was almost out of fuel. But the Jupiter mission still had some science to do. ‘On This Day in Space’ Video Series on Space.com Galileo flew ...

Europa Clipper is headed toward a March 1, 2025, close encounter with Mars for the first of the mission’s two gravity assists ...

On October 29, 1991, the Galileo spacecraft flew by the asteroid Gaspra on its way to Jupiter. ‘On This Day in Space’ Video Series on Space.com Gaspra was the first asteroid to ever be visited ...

The first close-up images of Io since NASA’s Galileo mission in 1997 revealed the emergence of a fresh volcano with multiple lava flows and volcanic deposits covering an area of about 180 ...

Amalthea, however, is tricky to spot even when you have a spacecraft. NASA's Galileo mission imaged Amalthea in 1999. Large impact craters are visible. American astronomer Edward Emerson Barnard ...

The spacecraft went into safe mode only 30 minutes after going past Amalthea. NASA said it was ready for problems, because Galileo was on its last legs, and the radiation near Amalthea was strong.

This photograph of the Jovian moon Europa was taken in June 1997 at a range of 776,700 miles by NASA's Galileo spacecraft. Slightly smaller than Earth's moon, Europa has a very smooth surface and ...

NASA NASA has been discussing the journey to the icy moon since the Galileo spacecraft, which orbited Jupiter in 1995 and finished its mission in 1997. The National Research Council recommended a ...

Voyager 1 and 2 spacecrafts captured the first close-up images, and then in 1995 Nasa’s Galileo spacecraft flew past Europa taking some deeply puzzling pictures. They showed a surface riddled ...

Europa's frozen, fissured surface, seen here in a colorized mosaic image from the Galileo spacecraft, hides a liquid ocean that may hold all the ingredients needed for life. Three key ingredients ...

which has frequently happened in the past Clipper isn't the first mission to explore the icy moon. The Galileo probe flew past it in the 1990s, confirming scientists' initial hopes that the moon ...