Jupiter
New Horizons Gets a Gravity Boost From Jupiter
NASA's New Horizons spacecraft got a big speed boost today, when it used Jupiter's gravity to give it a slingshot…
Scientists Lobbying to Search for Life on Europa
Recently I reported on a proposal that spacecraft should return to Jupiter's moon Europa to determine if it really has…
NASA’s Next Probe Should Visit Europa
Arizona State University professor Ronald Greeley thinks that NASA's next flagship mission to the outer planets should be sent to…
Looking at Jupiter, From Mars
Guess who took this picture of Jupiter? Hubble? Keck? A well equipped amateur here on Earth? Nope, it was taken…
New Horizons Bearing Down on Jupiter
Although New Horizons' main target is Pluto and the Kuiper Belt, it'll have plenty of opportunities to do some science…
Red Spot Jr. is Getting Stronger
Jupiter's newly formed Red Spot Jr. is increasing in strength, according to new observations from the Hubble Space Telescope. These…
New Horizons Sets its Sights on Jupiter
You might have seen better looking pictures of Jupiter before, but that's not the point. What matters is that this…
Jupiter’s Great Red Spots
Astronomers from UC Berkeley used the massive W.M. Keck Observatory in Hawaii to capture this infrared image of Jupiter and…
Red Spots Brush Past Each Other
Astronomers have been predicting the meetup for months; Jupiter's Great Red Spot and its newly formed "Red Spot Jr." were…
Gas Giants Gobbled Up Most of Their Moons
Even though our Solar System's gas giants vary widely in size and mass, they do have something in common. Each…