A trial run for finding signs of life Juice, launched in 2023, will travel to Jupiter over eight years. Upon arrival, it will ...

Research Fellow Dr. Babak Bakhit has encountered one of his most challenging projects to date—contributing to the European Space Agency's (ESA) JUpiter ICy moons Explorer (JUICE) mission.

ESA launched its largest planetary mission to date, targeting the biggest planet in our Solar System. The JUICE space probe, weighing over five tonnes, was launched on an Ariane 5 rocket from Europe’s ...

The moon, discovered by Barnard, orbits Jupiter within the orbit of Io and was named Amalthea after the nymph who, according to Greek mythology, fed Zeus with goat's milk in his childhood. Images ...

NASA's Europa Clipper mission set sail last year and should reach Jupiter and its moons in 2030, while the European Space Agency's JUICE mission should arrive in 2031. Both missions will almost ...

A UVA professor is part of the study of Trojan asteroids, presumed remnants of the early solar system that share Jupiter’s ...

The last time scientists had any data on Jupiter’s water it came from the Galileo probe. That mission, which wrapped up in late 1995, returned results that suggested that Jupiter was extremely ...

The European Space Agency’s JUICE (Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer) mission is also set to take a good look at what’s going on out there. In fact, it’s more: NASA believe Europa could well have ...