The Juno spacecraft was launched on August 2011, and it’s taking the long road to Jupiter. ... Earth, from Juno. You can see the east coast of Argentina to the upper right.

Juno is the first solar-powered spacecraft designed to study a planet at Jupiter's distance of nearly 500 million miles from the sun. At that distance, sunlight is 25 times weaker than at Earth.

NASA Jupiter-bound Juno spacecraft will zoom by Earth today (Oct. 9) to use the planet's gravitational pull as a speed boost for its Jupiter trek. Watch it live online.

Launched Aug 5, 2011, from Cape Canaveral, Juno traveled a roundabout 1.7 billion miles to reach Jupiter, making a gravity-assist flyby of Earth in October 2013 to pick up enough speed to finally ...

Juno! The Juno spacecraft will make an extremely close pass of Earth en route to its ultimate goal, the planet Jupiter. At 4:21 p.m. Central Daylight Time the probe will pass just 347 miles (559 ...

Launched from Earth in 2011, the Juno space probe has nearly reached Jupiter. If all goes as hoped, the probe will repeatedly dive between the planet and intense belts of charged particle ...

On Oct. 23, 2013, the Juno spacecraft stole a little bit of Earth’s energy. By doing so, it increased its speed relative to the Sun, catapulting it on its way to the planet Jupiter. As it flew ...

Flybys of Jupiter and its moon Ganymede conducted by the NASA Juno mission have revealed new Van Gogh-like images of the gas giant, as well as the sounds made by one of its moons.

NASA’s Juno spacecraft has delivered some of the most stunning glimpses of the gas giant that mankind has ever seen, but it’s also taught scientists … ...

At 3:21 p.m. (EDT), NASA'S Juno Mission spacecraft will slingshot around Earth towards Jupiter, accelerating to 25 miles per second along the way and becoming the fastest man-made object in history.

The video above, taken by NASA’s Juno spacecraft as it zipped past Earth on Oct. 9, may be imperfect, but it will give you chills. Captured with sensors designed to track faint stars rather than ...

Juno has shown that the volcano is still going, spewing a plume of gas and dust high above the night side of Io. Fresh from Jupiter, we have new views of its active moon Io, thanks to the # ...