"Our next chapter in space exploration has begun ... the Europa Clipper will fire its engines to enter Jupiter's orbit in 2030. The fourth largest of Jupiter’s 95 moons, Europa is an icy ...

SpaceX pulled off a stunning achievement this week, conducting four launches in less than 48 hours with huge implications for ...

February brings a rare planetary parade, with five bright planets in clear view and a special alignment of Mercury and Saturn ...

Researchers using NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope’s NIRCam (Near-Infrared Camera) have discovered a high-speed jet stream sitting over Jupiter’s equator, above the main cloud decks.

Jupiter’s famous clouds aren’t ammonia ice but a murky mix of chemicals, sitting lower in the atmosphere than expected. For years, astronomers believed that Jupiter’s upper clouds — responsible for it ...

Icy moon Ganymede—which JUICE will orbit—appears as a gray, mottled orb crossing the face of Jupiter ... [+] in this image from the Hubble Space Telescope. Sixty-seven orbits of Jupiter.

As Gizmodo reports, Kevin Grazier has done a lot of work in this field, studying the ways in which Jupiter interacts with rogue space rocks and how those objects end up flying toward our neck of ...

Dec. 9, 2024 — A NASA Hubble Space Telescope observation program called OPAL (Outer Planet Atmospheres Legacy) obtains long-term baseline observations of Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune in ...