The biggest planet in our Solar System just got a little smaller. Okay, not physically, but our measurements of Jupiter just ...
NASA’s Juno spacecraft has forced planetary scientists to reconsider something they thought was settled: how big Jupiter ...
The planet's radius from pole to center has been revised to 66,842 km, and at the equator to 71,488 km. That makes it about ...
Jupiter, the largest planet in the solar system, isn’t exactly the size and shape scientists believed it was. New measurements from the Juno spacecraft show ...
When a spacecraft slips behind Jupiter, something counterintuitive occurs: when we lose the signal the measurement is then the loss of signal. When Juno passes out of sight of the Earth, its radio ...
“Textbooks will need to be updated,” study co-author Yohai Kaspi, a planetary scientist at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel, said in a statement. “The size of Jupiter hasn’t changed, of ...
For decades, scientists believed they had a solid handle on Jupiter’s size and shape.
New data from NASA's Juno orbiter reveals Jupiter is slightly smaller and more 'squashed' than scientists previously thought.
An international team of researchers using data from NASA’s Juno mission has redefined the physical dimensions of the gas ...
Scientists using Juno report Jupiter is smaller than previously thought, enhancing understanding of its shape, interior density, gravitational field, and comparison to other gas giant planets ...
NASA’s Juno spacecraft has once again delivered a stunning view of Jupiter’s ever-changing atmosphere. In this latest image, a trail of drifting clouds appears to form the shape of a dolphin gliding ...