With another successful Soyuz launch performed to expand the Galileo satellite navigation system, Arianespace today reaffirmed the company’s important role in supporting European governments and ...
Yesterday, members of the media visited ESA-ESTEC, the agency’s European Research and Technology Centre, to see and learn about GIOVE-B, the second Galileo in-orbit validation satellite, before it is ...
On October 29, 1991, the Galileo spacecraft flew by the asteroid Gaspra on its way to Jupiter. ‘On This Day in Space’ Video Series on Space.com Gaspra was the first asteroid to ever be visited by a ...
Europa’s “wall-demon” scar resembles lake stars on Earth, prompting researchers to investigate whether it indicates pockets of water beneath the moon’s frozen surface ...
LOS ANGELES -- NASA's Galileo spacecraft was set to make its last flyby of one of Jupiter's moons early today, marking the likely end of the science-gathering part of its 13-year mission. Galileo was ...
On Aug. 28, 1993, NASA's Galileo spacecraft flew by the asteroid Ida on its way Jupiter. Galileo was the first spacecraft to fly by an asteroid in the asteroid belt. Ida was actually the second one it ...
NASA's aging Galileo made its closest pass yet to a moon of Jupiter on Thursday, but glitches aboard the spacecraft prevented it from taking pictures of volcanic Io. Galileo automatically shut down ...
LOS ANGELES - Since 1989, the camera on NASA's Galileo spacecraft has captured a comet slamming into Jupiter, volcanoes erupting on one of its moons and the first known moon orbiting an asteroid. On ...
A new analysis of data from NASA’s Galileo spacecraft reveals a subsurface “ocean” of magma–either molten or partially molten–beneath the surface of Jupiter’s volcanic moon Io. The finding, from a ...
PASADENA, Calif. -- NASA plans to crash its $1.5 billion Galileo spacecraft into Jupiter next weekend to make sure it doesn't accidentally contaminate the planet's ice-covered moon Europa with ...
WASHINGTON (voa) – One of the most remarkable chapters in the history of planetary exploration ended Sunday, September 21, 2003, at 1857 UTC when the American spacecraft Galileo plunged to its demise ...
Half a billion miles away, a lone emissary from Earth will carry out its own death sentence today when it screams into the atmosphere of the planet Jupiter at 108,000 mph and gets vaporized. The ...