This definitively demonstrates that the Galileo probe's entry site was an anomalously dry, desert-like region." While there are still many questions surrounding how Jupiter formed, scientists ...

The latest analysis of data from the Galileo probe reveals surprising clues about Callisto, one of Jupiter's moons. These discoveries could change our understanding of this icy satellite.

In December 1995, Galileo dropped an atmospheric probe designed to measure the elements in Jupiter’s atmosphere—specifically, the abundance of carbon, nitrogen, sulfur, oxygen, and all the ...

even allowing us to send a probe to another star. The idea’s inception dates all the way back to the time of Galileo. Its long history shows that worthwhile ideas might be momentarily forgotten ...

NASA/JPL/Cornell University Galileo, the first spacecraft to orbit any of the large planets beyond Mars, may have been the most delayed mission in NASA’s history. It was originally scheduled to ...

In the 1990s, however, NASA's Galileo spacecraft captured magnetic measurements near Callisto that suggested that its ice shell surface—much like that of Europa, another moon of Jupiter—may ...