The culprit was probably Jupiter's incredibly intense radiation belts. There's some good news and just-okay news about NASA's mighty little spacecraft Juno, which has been orbiting Jupiter since 2016.

Bolton is the lead designer and principal investigator for NASA’s Juno spacecraft, currently looping around Jupiter after traveling nearly two billion miles. The mission’s goal is to ...

Get Instant Summarized Text (Gist) NASA's Juno spacecraft entered safe mode twice during its 71st flyby of Jupiter, likely due to intense radiation belts. Safe mode suspends nonessential functions ...

Juno was making its 71st close approach to Jupiter when it entered its precautionary status twice on April 4 as it was flying by the gas giant, NASA recently revealed. It’s not clear exactly ...

During its 71st close flyby of Jupiter, the Juno probe went into safe mode twice. According to NASA, this could be due to the radiation. Juno began its approach to Jupiter on April 4. At 11:17 a.m ...

According to an article published by NASA on Wednesday ... detections” on Jupiter, Saturn and Uranus, astronomers had yet to confirm or obtain images of Neptune’s aurora until nearly two ...

"Imaging and confirming the auroras on Neptune has long evaded astronomers despite successful detections on Jupiter ... Aurora (cyan splotches) on Neptune. Aurora (cyan splotches) on Neptune. NASA ...

Scientists say a vast region of unexpectedly high temperatures in Jupiter's upper atmosphere was caused by a massive wave of solar wind.

"This is the first time we've ever seen a thing like this on any outer world." A massive solar windstorm in 2017 compressed Jupiter's magnetosphere "like a giant squash ball," a new study reports.

Research published by scientists in England found a 2017 solar event compressed Jupiter's magnetic field, setting off aurora at the poles and heating in the upper atmosphere that spread across the ...

There's some good news and just-okay news about NASA's mighty little spacecraft Juno, which has been orbiting Jupiter since 2016. The good news is that, on Wednesday (April 9), the agency ...