Voracious Jupiter Ate a Bunch of Baby Planets, Scientists Say
Me Hongy! Jupiter may be our solar system's hungriest hippo — as evidenced by new data from NASA's Juno probe that found the remains of a ton of smaller planets lurking beneath's the gas giant's opaque...
View ArticleThe Webb Telescope Just Quietly Released a Picture of Jupiter
Webb Watching If you were looking for images of Jupiter amid the fanfare of the James Webb Space Telescope's first aligned images, you wouldn't find one — but that doesn't mean it wasn't hidden there...
View ArticleJames Webb Picture of Jupiter So Crisp You Can See Its Moon Europa
Jupiter So Bright NASA has released stunning new images of Jupiter, taken by its groundbreaking new James Webb Space Telescope. One new infrared image of the gas giant is so detailed, the telescope...
View ArticleJupiter's Moons Accused of Sucking Up the Planet's Rings
Left Out Have you ever wondered why Saturn has those giant, gorgeous rings, while the even larger Jupiter doesn’t? They’re both neighboring gas giants, so what’s the deal? You wouldn’t be the first,...
View ArticleJames Webb Captures Jupiter in Glorious Infrared
All Together Now Citizen scientist Judy Schmidt of Modesto, California, collaborated with NASA to create a new infrared image of Jupiter, the largest planet in our solar system — and it's stunning....
View ArticleAwesome Video Shows Jupiter's Moons in Comparison to NYC
Moon Mayhem Saturn has a lot of moons — 80, to be exact. And they all vary considerably in size, as demonstrated in an amazing new video shared by MetaBallStudios on YouTube that compares the sizes of...
View ArticleA Wave of Incredible Heat Ripped Through Jupiter
The Earth isn't the only planet experiencing extraordinary heat waves. A team of scientists led by James O’Donoghue, planetary scientist at the Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), was shocked...
View ArticleNASA Spacecraft Snaps Incredible Image of Volcano-Covered Moon
Volcano Moon NASA has released a stunning infrared image of Jupiter's moon Io, snapped from a mere 50,000 miles away. The image, taken this past summer by the space agency's Juno spacecraft and just...
View ArticleAstronomers Spot Stunning Auroras On Jupiter's Moons
From the Shadows Earth's isn't the only atmosphere capable of producing ethereal displays of diaphanous light in the sky like the Northern lights. Case in point, astronomers have observed the...
View ArticleScientists Launch JUICE Mission to Distant Worlds
Lucid Dreams The European Space Agency has successfully launched an exciting new deep space mission to visit Jupiter's icy moons, which are considered to be some of the best places to search for...
View ArticleIf You Want to Make NASA Carve Something Rude Into a Spacecraft Headed to...
Mwahahaha Ever dreamed of sending a raunchy, expletive, or otherwise inappropriate missive into outer space? If the answer's yes, it's your lucky day. NASA's sending a spacecraft to Jupiter's icy moon,...
View ArticleNASA Spacecraft Snaps Beautiful Photo of Jupiter’s Volcano-Dotted Moon
By Jove Since it arrived at Jupiter's orbit in 2016, NASA's Juno probe has been gathering rich images and data from the largest planet in our Solar System and its many moons. Add to that cache some...
View ArticleBehold This Scary Face in the Clouds of Jupiter
Space Ghouls Even the ghouls on Jupiter are out for Halloween! Right in time for the spookiest holiday of all, NASA is showing off an eerie photo of Jupiter's noxious clouds — which are scary enough on...
View ArticleNASA Apologies for Saying Your Broke A** Will Never Go to Jupiter
Apologia When advertising a promotion, NASA attempted to spit facts about the fact that traveling anywhere in space is unfathomably expensive and unrealistic for the average person — but after irking a...
View ArticleNASA Says It's Spotted Organic Compounds on Jupiter's Largest Moon
What Lies Beneath NASA's Juno space probe has detected salts and organic compounds on the surface of Ganymede, providing invaluable clues about the history of Jupiter's largest moon. The discovery, as...
View ArticleObject Crashes Into Jupiter, Explodes
Flash in the Pan See ya! As Mashable reports, a video captured by an amateur astronomer in Japan shows a super-bright comet, also known as a bolide, exploding as it collides with Jupiter. A gas giant,...
View ArticleNASA Spacecraft Zooms Close to Jupiter's Brutal Moon, Snaps Amazing Photos
Moonlighting Last week, NASA's Juno spacecraft performed a scintillatingly close flyby of Jupiter's moon Io — the closest in over 20 years — and captured breathtaking new images of its evershifting...
View ArticleNASA Spacecraft Swoops So Close to Io That It Can See Volcanic Eruptions
Say Cheese A spectacular image taken by NASA's Juno probe this past weekend shows Jupiter's moon Io with twin eruptions on the surface, underlining the fact that Io is the most volcanically active...
View ArticleJupiter Used to Be Flat, Scientists Suggest
Flat Jupiter Think of all planets as being spheres? It might not be that simple. Using a supercomputer, a team of astrophysicists have simulated how gas giants like Jupiter grew in the first place —...
View ArticleScientists Intrigued by Jet Inside Jupiter
Big Blue Jupiter is iconic, with its swirls of water and ammonia vapor that characterize its outer surface and its distinctive Giant Red Spot, a gigantic storm raging across its face. But its mysteries...
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