But sometimes, the gas giant gets the best of it. The Juno mission recently went into an unexpected safe mode during a scheduled flyby of Jupiter, temporarily powering down its science instruments.

The culprit was probably Jupiter's incredibly intense radiation belts. There's some good news and just-okay news about NASA's mighty little spacecraft Juno, which has been orbiting Jupiter since 2016.

NASA’s Juno spacecraft has returned new images of Jupiter after its 66th close flyby as it enters the final year of its mission. The $1 billion spacecraft completed its latest close flyby on Oct ...

NASA’s Juno spacecraft orbiting Jupiter has returned another spectacular set of images of the giant planet after its 65th close monthly flyby saw it enter the final year of its life. In an ...

NASA has been flying spacecraft by Jupiter since the '70s. But no spacecraft quite compares to Juno. Juno is NASA's latest Jupiter mission, and it has shown us a completely new perspective of the ...

Jupiter’s Moon Io in the latest picture taken by the Juno spacecraft. Image: NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/MSSS/Ted Stryk After years of capturing the massive world of ...

Juno has shown that the volcano is still going, spewing a plume of gas and dust high above the night side of Io. Fresh from Jupiter, we have new views of its active moon Io, thanks to the # ...

The photo was released Thursday after being captured by NASA's Juno mission as it completed its 31st close flyby of Jupiter on Dec. 30, 2020. The spacecraft was about 19,000 miles above Jupiter's ...

Juno sailed by Jupiter's moon Ganymede—the solar system's largest moon—in June 2021. Europa is the solar system's sixth-largest moon with about 90% the equatorial diameter of Earth's moon.

On Aug. 27, 2016, Juno experienced its first close approach of Jupiter, or perijove, sweeping just 2,600 miles (4,200 km) above Jupiter’s clouds, closer than any spacecraft in history.

Nasa’s Juno mission, the solar-powered robotic explorer of Jupiter, has completed its five-year prime mission to reveal the inner workings of the Solar System’s biggest planet. Since 2016 ...

NASA’s Juno spacecraft at Jupiter is helping scientists learn just how deep the planet’s Great Red Spot extends inward, placing the storm at somewhere between 300 and 500 kilometers deep.