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This detailed map of Jupiter might be the most complete picture of the planet...
The ancient Romans once said Jupiter was god of the sky. So it's perhaps no surprise that the largest planet in our solar system is kind of hard to see in its entirety.Sitting more than 365 million...
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NASA's $1 billion Jupiter probe just beamed back even more jaw-dropping...
Juno, a tennis-court-size NASA probe at Jupiter, recently sent scientists a new batch of data, and the photos it included are even more stunning than the last set.NASA launched Juno toward Jupiter in...
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NASA's $1 billion Jupiter mission was slated to meet a fiery end this summer...
Juno, NASA's probe at Jupiter, has orbited the giant planet for nearly two years.The $1 billion mission was scheduled to end with a crash into Jupiter's clouds after July 2018.However, NASA sources...
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NASA confirms its $1 billion Jupiter mission will cheat death for at least 3...
NASA's probe at Jupiter, called Juno, has orbited the gas giant since July 2015.The $1 billion mission was supposed to crash into Jupiter's clouds in July, but sources told Business Insider the mission...
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NASA's Juno probe has solved a 39 year-old mystery about Jupiter's lightning
NASA's Juno spacecraft has made an astonishing discovery about Jupiter's lightning strikes: They're similar to Earth's.Jupiter's lightning is clustered in the polar regions, while Earth experiences...
View ArticleAstronomers just discovered 12 new moons around Jupiter
Our solar system is already teaming with nearly 200 moons, and we just got 12 more to add to the list. A team led by astronomer Scott Sheppard out of the Carnegie Institution for Science discovered the...
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Scientists just found a dozen new moons around Jupiter — including one...
While searching for a hypothetical planet at the far edges of our solar system known as Planet Nine or Planet X, a team of astronomers discovered 12 new moons around Jupiter.That brings the total...
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NASA's $1 billion Jupiter probe just beamed back mesmerizing new photos of...
It’s been a busy and exhilarating couple of months for scientists who study Jupiter— and space nerds fascinated by the gas giant.Yesterday, a team of researchers announced the discovery of 12 new...
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NASA's $1 billion Juno spacecraft is probing Jupiter's deepest secrets — here...
NASA's Juno probe reached Jupiter in July 2016, and scientists' view of the solar system has not been the same since.The $1 billion mission has taken stunning images of the gas giant several hundred...
View ArticleThe worst storms on Earth are nothing compared to the weather on other planets
Earth has some pretty severe weather— hurricanes, earthquakes, and tsunamis can be devastating — but we're better off living here than on other planets. Earth's worst storms are nothing compared to the...
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A breathtaking NASA video shows Jupiter's moons passing over Jupiter's Great...
NASA employee Kevin M. Gill created a video of Jupiter's moons with images taken from the late Cassini spacecraft, which plunged to its death in 2017.The video shows moons Io and Europa racing past...
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A new NASA portrait of Jupiter reveals its disappearing Great Red Spot in...
NASA has released a new image of Jupiter that shows the bands of the planet's atmosphere in unprecedented color.The photo also highlights the planet's Great Red Spot, a centuries-old storm that's...
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An amateur astronomer accidentally recorded an impressive natural phenomenon...
An amateur astrophotographer accidentally took a video of a massive collision on the southern equatorial belt of Jupiter.Ethan Chapel said he was "lucky to be there at the time", when his monochrome...
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NASA's future missions will shoot for an icy moon of Saturn, photograph the...
In the past year, NASA has announced plans to return humans to the moon and search for life on one of Saturn's moons with a nuclear-powered helicopter. NASA's 10-year plan also includes missions to...
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Jupiter got hit by a planet with 10 times the mass of Earth billions of years...
Jupiter was struck by a young planet with 10 times the mass of Earth about 4.5 billion years ago, a new study suggests.The planet struck Jupiter's core and stirred up the heavy elements inside. Jupiter...
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An amateur astronomer accidentally recorded a rare flash on Jupiter. The...
An amateur astronomer accidentally captured video of a massive collision on Jupiter in August.A new analysis of that video reveals that the flash came from a 450-ton meteorthat hit the planet,...
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The coolest photos of the solar system taken in the decade you were born
NASA spacecraft and telescopes have captured stunning photos of the solar systemfor decades. The first image taken in space came from a rocket camera in 1946. Before that, astronomers took...
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An incredible video shows what we would see if the planets replaced the moon....
Two animations by an amateur astronomer show the stunning view from Earth if the other planets in our solar system replaced the moon.But the videos— one set at night and one during the day — don't...
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NASA just detected water vapor on a moon of Jupiter — yet another clue that...
NASA scientists have detected water vapor above the surface of Jupiter's moon Europa for the first time.It's yet another clue that Europa could host alien life in the ocean below its icy crust....
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This startup says it will 'magically' stock your kitchen, but people are...
A new Silicon Valley startup takes grocery delivery services like Instacart or Amazon Fresh to another level.The service, called Jupiter, organizes groceries in customers' kitchens, and keeps track of...
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