NASA’s Juno spacecraft has been orbiting Jupiter since 2016, mapping the planet’s gravity and magnetic fields with extraordinary precision. Instead of finding a dense solid core or no core at all, the ...
On March 8, 1979, NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft discovered active volcanoes on Jupiter's moon Io. [‘On This Day in Space’ Video ...
On 1979, NASA’s Voyager 1 spacecraft took the first photos of rings around Jupiter. [‘On This Day in Space’ Video Series on Space.com] This was the first time anyone had seen Jupiter’s ...
The largest of all planets in the Solar System, Jupiter is a gas giant with a mass that is twice the size of all other planets combined. You may have learned in your school science text that if it ...
NASA scientists spotted a weird green flash on Jupiter — a bright, unexpected burst of green light that shouldn’t be there according to everything we know about the giant planet’s atmosphere. This ...
Images captured in 2023 by NASA's James Webb Space Telescope of the massive aurora lights on Jupiter reveal unexpected activity in the gas giant's atmosphere. (Video: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI) ...
WASHINGTON -- Scientists said they have found evidence of water in the atmosphere of Jupiter's icy moon "Europa." NASA said its Hubble space telescope observed the presence of persistent water vapor ...
MIAMI — NASA celebrated a key triumph on Tuesday as its $1.1 billion Juno spacecraft successfully slipped into orbit around Jupiter on a mission to probe the origin of the solar system. NASA’s Jet ...