On September 5, NASA shared the first ... even allowing us to send a probe to another star. The idea’s inception dates all the way back to the time of Galileo. Its long history shows that ...

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 ...

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 ...

These overflights cover both hemispheres of the satellite and different latitudes,», — says project manager Jordan Evans. NASA’s «Galileo» spacecraft approached Europe a dozen times, but had ...

When Nasa's Juno probe approached Jupiter it caught sight of its four big moons - Callisto, Ganymede, Europa and Io. When Galileo Galilei's discovered these moons in 1610, it marked the birth of ...

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 next probe to reach Jupiter's icy moon was NASA's Galileo probe in the 1990s, which found it was highly likely that the moon was home to an ocean. This time, the Europa Clipper carries a host ...