Source: NOVA: "Galileo's Battle for the Heavens" This resource was adapted from NOVA: "Galileo's Battle for the Heavens." In 1610, when Galileo first pointed his newly built telescope toward the sky, ...

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

NASA's Galileo space probe, which revolutionised scientists' understanding of Jupiter and its moons, made its last transmissions early this morning and then disintegated spectacularly in Jupiter's ...

On a third and final tour of duty in the Jovian system, NASA's dauntless Galileo spacecraft makes its closest pass yet to Jupiter's outermost large moon. On a third and final tour of duty in the ...

With a jazz band playing in the background and more than a thousand glasses raised, Jet Propulsion Laboratory scientists and engineers said goodbye to one of their own Sunday, toasting the veteran ...

On Jan. 7, 1610, Galileo discovered four moons revolving around Jupiter — a discovery that would change his life forever. These four moons are Jupiter’s largest satellites — lo, Europa, Ganymede and ...

In January 1610, Galileo Galilei, using a newly improved telescope with 20x magnification, observed four celestial bodies orbiting Jupiter, initially appearing as stars. These bodies, later named Io, ...

NASA engineers normally do everything they can to keep spacecraft up and running. On Sunday, they will intentionally send one of their most successful veteran explorers crashing into Jupiter’s ...

Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook PASADENA, Calif. (AP) – NASA’s aging Galileo spacecraft plunged into Jupiter’s turbulent ...

Hampered by a communications antenna that never unfurled, the Galileo spacecraft became known as the plucky mission that overcame major obstacles. During more than 6 years of touring Jupiter and its ...

In the end, the Galileo spacecraft will get a taste of Jupiter before taking a final plunge into the planet's crushing atmosphere, ending the mission on Sunday, Sept. 21. The team expects the ...

Every wonder what the sky looked like hundreds of years ago? Where the planets were? We know that the constellations change so slowly that even if you time-traveled King Tut out of ancient Egypt into ...