Thick, swirling clouds cover Jupiter from pole to pole. They hold water like Earth’s clouds, but at far greater density.
Jupiter harbors more oxygen than the sun, a new study finds, giving astronomers a crucial clue about how our solar system's ...
While Io, the most volcanically active moon in the solar system, appears completely dry and devoid of water ice, its neighbor ...
NASA has been flying spacecraft by Jupiter since the '70s. But no spacecraft quite compares to Juno. Juno is NASA's latest Jupiter mission, and it has shown us a completely new perspective of the ...
NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft flew past Jupiter 45 years ago, capturing iconic footage. The Voyager probe's movie of Jupiter made history, revealing the planet like never before. See how those images ...
Over the years, passing spacecraft have observed mystifying weather patterns at the poles of Jupiter and Saturn. The two ...
"I don't think anyone's made this connection between the surface fluid pattern and the interior properties of these planets." ...
Jupiter, the largest planet in the solar system, was 2 to 2.5 times bigger in its earlier life, according to new research. Credit: NASA / JPL-Caltech / SwRI / MSSS / Tanya Oleksuik Jupiter, the ...
Imagine a Slushee TM composed of ammonia and water encased in a hard shell of water ice. Now picture these ice-encrusted slushballs, dubbed “mushballs,” raining down like hailstones during a ...
There’s no mistaking Jupiter in the sky these Pottsville winter evenings, rising in the southeast as evening twilight ends.