mission draws to a close September 21 with a plunge into Jupiter’s atmosphere. NASA has scheduled a Space Science Update (SSU) at 2 p.m. EDT, Wed., Sept. 17, in the James E. Webb Auditorium at NASA Dr ...

The year was 1995. Hillary Clinton’s husband was prepping to run for reelection. Coolio’s ‘Gangsta’s Paradise’ was song of the year. Toy Story was blowing minds. And on December 7, NASA’s Galileo ...

Normally when NASA publishes exciting new discoveries it's thanks to data that just arrived from one of its many pieces of high-tech space hardware. NASA's Galileo isn't around anymore, having dipped ...

NASA crashed the Galileo spacecraft into Jupiter to save Europa. Discover the impossible secrets revealed during its hellish ...

A review of data captured by NASA's Galileo spacecraft as it orbited Jupiter in the 1990s indicates it likely flew through a plume of water vapor spewing from cracks in the surface of the moon Europa, ...

When Galileo Galilei turned his telescope to Jupiter in 1610, he uncovered the planet’s four large moons, as well as a new vision of the cosmos. Not everything had to orbit Earth. NASA’s first ...

NASA technicians are setting the agency?s Galileo spacecraft on its final path as they aim the eight-year mission onto a collision course with the planet Jupiter. Galileo, which has captured ...

NASA's Galileo orbiter will dart past Jupiter's moon Io on Thursday in the veteran spacecraft's last and closest flyby of any of the giant planet's four major moons. NASA's Galileo orbiter will dart ...

WASHINGTON -- NASA technicians are setting the agency's Galileo spacecraft on its final path Monday as they aim the eight-year mission onto a collision course with the planet Jupiter. Galileo, which ...