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NASA timed Voyager 2’s 1977 launch to catch an alignment of the four outer planets that only lines up once every 176 years, letting a single spacecraft slingshot past Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune on borrowed gravity — a shortcut through the solar syst - spacedaily.comspacedaily.com · Sat, 08 Aug 2026 13:30:00 GMTEuropa Clipper is already in space, travelling 1.8 billion miles toward Jupiter's moon Europa, where a subsurface ocean holds more water than every ocean on Earth combined — it arrives April 2030 to ask whether anything is alive inside - spacedaily.comspacedaily.com · Thu, 06 Aug 2026 15:30:00 GMTJupiter has no ground to stand on at all — descend far enough into its atmosphere and there's no solid surface waiting, only thickening gas that eventually behaves like liquid metal, a world where the very idea of "landing" stops making sense - spacedaily.comspacedaily.com · Thu, 06 Aug 2026 10:15:51 GMTEuropa may literally glow green, blue or white on its night side because Jupiter’s radiation energises salts frozen into its surface, and the colour of that glow could offer a new clue to what its hidden ocean is made of - spacedaily.comspacedaily.com · Thu, 06 Aug 2026 02:30:00 GMTOn this day in space! Aug. 5, 2011: NASA's Juno spacecraft launches to Jupiter - SpaceSpace · Wed, 05 Aug 2026 14:00:00 GMTGanymede is a moon, yet it is larger than the planet Mercury, may contain more water than exists on Earth's surface, and even generates its own magnetic field, making it less like a conventional moon than a full-sized world that happens to orbit Jupiter. - spacedaily.comspacedaily.com · Sat, 01 Aug 2026 23:30:58 GMTThe asteroid that killed the dinosaurs was around ten kilometres wide and hit 66 million years ago, and a 2024 study of rare metals in the debris it left behind traced its birthplace to beyond Jupiter, in the outer solar system - spacedaily.comspacedaily.com · Sat, 01 Aug 2026 10:41:21 GMTEuropa is smaller than Earth's Moon, yet the ocean locked beneath its ice contains more liquid water than every ocean on Earth combined — kept from freezing not by sunlight, but by Jupiter's gravity squeezing the moon like a slow, endless fist - spacedaily.comspacedaily.com · Fri, 31 Jul 2026 22:30:21 GMT