"Eight minutes later, the orbiter started receiving data from the descent probe, which slammed into the top of the Jovian atmosphere at a comet-like speed of 170,000 kilometers per hour," NASA ...

When Galileo was almost out of fuel, NASA deliberately sent the spacecraft on a suicide plunge into Jupiter on Sept. 21, 2003. The sacrifice, the agency said, was necessary to protect Europa ...

8.4K. Newly understood instrumentation readings returned in the 1990s from NASA’s Galileo spacecraft in orbit of Jupiter have revealed that the craft not only encountered but also flew through ...

Following eight years of capturing dramatic images and surprising science from Jupiter and its moons, NASA's Galileo mission draws to a close September 21 with a plunge into Jupiter's atmosphere.

NASA's aging Galileo spacecraft concluded its 14-year, $1.5 billion exploration of Jupiter and its moons on Sunday with a streaking suicide plunge into the planets turbulent atmosphere.

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 ...

PASADENA, Calif. -- NASA said Tuesday it has completed a long-distance repair of the tape recorder aboard Galileo, allowing the aging spacecraft to transmit to Earth the last scientific data of ...

NASA's Galileo mission, which launched into space in 1989, was designed to study Jupiter, its moons, and its surrounding invisible magnetic bubble, called the magnetosphere.

NASA also explained that the spacecraft was slowly tumbling, ... Galileo to ACS3: How NASA’s solar sails could change future space travel. An image captured by the LightSail 2 spacecraft.

NASA's Galileo spacecraft zoomed by Europa a dozen times, but it carried scientific instruments from the 1980s. Europa Clipper boasts a 21st-century payload package with nine instruments to probe ...

NASA has launched its Europa Clipper mission to the icy moon of Jupiter. Thought to contain an underground ocean and potentially habitable environment, Europa has long been a tantalizing target.