Since NASA's Juno spacecraft entered Jupiter's orbit in July 2016 and began transmitting image data, the world has gotten glimpses of the solar system's largest planet and its moons. But a new batch ...
Amy Simon of NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, lead author of the paper published recently in The ...
During this pass, the spacecraft came close to Jupiter's fifth-largest moon, Amalthea—a rocky sphere just ... radiometer to measure the abundance of water and ammonia in the planet's atmosphere. This ...
Jupiter, a gas giant with no solid surface, fierce storms, and a metallic hydrogen ocean, is a cosmic giant shielding Earth ...
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NASA’s Juno spacecraft has returned new images of Jupiter after its 66th close flyby as it enters the final year of its ...
NASA's mission to send a spacecraft to scour Jupiter's moon Europa for signs of life appears back on track after Hurricane ...
The Great Red Spot of Jupiter is one of the solar system’s most astonishing marvels. An elliptical storm with swirls of burnt ...
Its massive solar panels make Clipper the biggest craft built by NASA to investigate another planet. It will take 5 1/2 years ...
NASA’s Europa Clipper has embarked on its long voyage to Jupiter, where it will investigate Europa, a moon with an enormous ...
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In 2006, the International Astronomical Union (IAU) famously demoted Pluto to a dwarf planet. Things have been a bit of a ...