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.

NASA’s Juno spacecraft, which has spent years studying Jupiter and uncovering some of the most detailed insights about the planet’s atmosphere and storms, may have stopped communicating with Earth.

The U.S. government shut down the same day Juno's last mission extension expired. NASA's spinning spacecraft studying the satellites of the solar system's largest celestial body (aside from the sun), ...