NASA's Juno spacecraft has resumed normal operations after entering safe mode twice during its 71st close approach to Jupiter on April 4.

Juno is scheduled for an upcoming flyby of Jupiter on May 7, during which it is set to carry out a close approach of the ...

A bizarre hailstorm of icy “mushballs” — slushy mixtures of ammonia and water — has been confirmed on Jupiter, where intense ...

Imagine a Slushee composed of ammonia and water encased in a hard shell of water ice. Now picture these ice-encrusted ...

Observations of Jupiter show that ammonia is unevenly distributed in the upper atmosphere, against expectations of uniform mixing. Scientists found evidence for a complicated but apparently real ...

Space exploration missions have revealed that polar vortices aren’t uncommon beyond Earth. They’ve been observed throughout ...

Heidi Becker, a radiation engineer for Juno who is leading the mission’s efforts at JPL to monitor the radiation environment around Jupiter and to protect the spacecraft from it, speaks ...

The idea of mushballs was initially put forth in 2020 to explain nonuniformities in the distribution of ammonia gas in Jupiter's upper atmosphere that were detected both by NASA's Juno mission and ...

Malin Space Science Systems (MSSS) created JunoCam for NASA's Juno mission, which launched in August 2011. The mission, focused on studying Jupiter and its moons, reached Jupiter's orbit on July 4 ...

The idea of mushballs was initially put forth in 2020 to explain nonuniformities in the distribution of ammonia gas in Jupiter's upper atmosphere that were detected both by NASA's Juno mission ...