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A space instrument created to try and find out whether there’s life beyond Earth will launch this month after being designed and built by a team at the University of Colorado Boulder. The Surface Dust ...

The Swedish-led satellite instrument Particle Environment Package (PEP) will help researchers at the Swedish Institute of Space Physics (IRF) to understand how three of Jupiter’s icy moons are ...

NASA’s partnership in a future European Space Agency (ESA) mission to Jupiter and its moons has cleared a key milestone, moving from preliminary instrument design to implementation phase. Designed to ...

Taking a major step toward an eventual robotic mission to Europa, a moon of Jupiter believed to harbor ice-locked lakes and a vast sub-surface ocean, NASA has selected nine sophisticated instruments ...

IOWA CITY - As Iowans on the Fourth of July direct their gaze skyward, University of Iowa researcher Bill Kurth will be concentrating on the heavens for a different reason. 'When you're watching the ...

A solar-powered spacecraft named Juno is circling Jupiter on a mission to map the giant planet from the inside out. NASA mission control received a radio signal Monday night from the Juno spacecraft ...

The UVS instrument recorded spatial information produced by hydrogen atoms radiating from the Earth. In the background a number of individual stars are identified along with the Pleiades star cluster.

The JUpiter ICy moons Explorer mission (JUICE) will carry a total of 11 scientific experiments to study the gas giant planet and its large ocean-bearing moons, the European Space Agency (ESA) ...

LA CANADA FLINTRIDGE – NASA is sending instruments to three of Jupiter’s moons in 2030, part of a European mission to explore potentially habitable, water-filled worlds that many astronomers consider ...

An instrument designed to study exoplanets has turned its focus to our own cosmic neighborhood to measure Jupiter's wind speeds. "The exploratory application of this method with a 'top of the range' ...