Jupiter
An Ongoing Study of Jupiter’s Cloudtops Has Been Going on for 40 Years
Some of the most useful discoveries about distant objects take time to complete. For example, several generations of planetary scientists…
Juno has Been Touring Jupiter’s Moons on its Extended Mission. Next Stop: Volcanic Io
For a tiny moon orbiting a giant planet, Io sure packs a giant wallop. It's the most volcanic world in…
New Views of Ganymede and Europa From Earth’s Most Powerful Telescope
Scouting mission locations in the outer solar system is complicated. It is difficult to know what you find before you…
Mars Express Watched Deimos Pass in Front of Jupiter and its Moons
That’s no moon … wait … yes, it is, and more! ESA’s Mars Express has captured an unusual and rare…
Jupiter’s Atmosphere is Surprisingly Hot
Jupiter's upper atmosphere should be pretty cold, but it is surprisingly quite hot.
A Fascinating Look at Jupiter's Clouds Where the Light Intensity is Converted Into 3D
Using images taken by JunoCam, a team of citizen scientists have created a 3D animation of Jupiter's atmosphere
Webb Telescope Sees Jupiter and Its Auroras in a New Light
NASA's James Webb Space Telescope is designed to probe the farthest frontiers of the universe, but newly released images of…
Jupiter Missions Could Also Help Search for Dark Matter
In a recent study published in the Journal of High Energy Physics, two researchers from Brown University demonstrated how data…
Jupiter's Giant Moons Prevent it From Having Rings Like Saturn
A recent study examined why Jupiter doesn't have highly-visible (and beautiful) rings like Saturn, and puts the blame on its…
JWST Also Looked Inside the Solar System, at Jupiter and its Moons
After the ‘big reveal’ earlier this week of the James Webb Space Telescope’s first full color images and spectra of…