Jupiter’s Great Red Spot – Just a Sunburn?
Using a combination of data from Cassini’s December 2000 Jupiter flyby and laboratory experiments, new research suggests effects of sunlight produce the color of Jupiter’s…
Using a combination of data from Cassini’s December 2000 Jupiter flyby and laboratory experiments, new research suggests effects of sunlight produce the color of Jupiter’s…
New data from NASA’s Cassini mission reveal that the color of Jupiter’s Great Red Spot is likely a product of simple chemicals being broken apart…
With the aid of computer simulations, a team of scientists has now succeeded in explaining the origin of the magnetic field deep inside Jupiter. Superlatives…
Using Keck II telescope, the Gemini North telescope on Mauna Kea, and the SpeX near-infrared spectrometer on NASA’s Infrared Telescope Facility, astronomers viewed three massive…
A new study reveals that radio signals generated from Jupiter could help researchers scan its giant moons for extraterrestrial life. Powerful radio signals that Jupiter…
New data from the Hubble Space Telescope has revealed that Jupiter’s Great Red Spot has shrunk to its smallest size ever measured. Jupiter’s trademark Great…
This NASA image of the day shows Jupiter’s Great Red Spot assembled from three black and white negatives from NASA’s Voyager 1. At about 89,000…
Bound for Jupiter, NASA’s Juno spacecraft reached the halfway point on August 12, 2013 and should arrive at Jupiter on July 4, 2016. Once there,…
Using the Herschel space observatory, researchers have solved the mystery as to the origin of water in the upper atmosphere of Jupiter, finding conclusive evidence…
Scientists at NASA and the European Space Agency believe volcanic activity on Io is located 30 to 60 degrees East from where they expected it…
Using the Keck II Telescope, scientists analyzed data in the near-infrared range of light from Europa, finding that peroxide is widespread across much of the…
Using images from NASA’s Cassini spacecraft, researchers closely tracked the shape of multiple “hot spots” over a period of time on Jupiter’s surface, finding evidence…
In newly published research from the Carnegie Institution for Science, Alan Boss uses highly detailed, three dimensional models to help explain how the gas giant…
Using data from the W. M. Keck Observatory, researchers have the best evidence yet that salty water from the liquid ocean beneath Europa’s frozen exterior…
New data from NASA’s Infrared Telescope Facility and the Subaru Telescope on Mauna Kea help show the serious changes that have occurred in Jupiter’s atmosphere…
New data from WISE answers several questions about Jovian Trojans, asteroids that orbit the sun on the same path as Jupiter, and is the first…
NASA’s Juno spacecraft successfully performed its first deep-space maneuver, firing its main engine and changing its trajectory as it continues on its mission toward Jupiter….
By examining data from NASA’s Voyager and Galileo missions and incorporating infrared data obtained from telescopes on Earth, astronomers discovered that the heat pouring out…