After a final 35-minute engine burst to slow it down Monday night, the NASA explorer spacecraft named Juno will attempt to enter Jupiter's polar orbit. By observing the planet, astronomers are ...

An curved arrow pointing right. Right now, NASA's Juno spacecraft is orbiting Jupiter. It's the second spacecraft in history to do so, and its orbit is taking it over Jupiter's north and south pole.

Using infrared images from NASA’s Juno spacecraft, which has orbited Jupiter since 2016, Mura’s team pinpointed more than 40 lava lakes ranging in diameter from about 10 to 100 kilometers.