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Jupiter’s moon Io has revealed a breathtaking spectacle through the lens of the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST).

JunoCam, the visible light imager aboard NASA’s Juno, captured this enhanced-color view of Jupiter’s northern high latitudes from an altitude of about 36,000 miles (58,000 kilometers) above the giant ...

Jupiter's moon Io stands alone among the solar system's moons. It has more than 400 active volcanoes, and its surface is home ...

TL;DR: Researchers are investigating mysterious "dark ovals" on Jupiter, which are Earth-sized and appear near the poles. These may indicate disturbances in Jupiter's ionosphere linked to its magnetic ...

Turn a telescope to the eastern sky in the hours following midnight on Nov. 5 to see two colossal shadows darken the cloud ...

Experiments led by Southwest Research Institute’s Dr. Ujjwal Raut have produced evidence to support spectral data recently collected by the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) showing that the icy ...

Researchers have observed mysterious “dark ovals,” each roughly the size of the Earth, appearing on the polar regions of Jupiter on the ultraviolet spectrum. The gas giant, whose Great Red Spot has ...

This summer will be an excellent opportunity for anyone wanting to observe the two largest planets in our solar system: Jupiter and Saturn. The fun begins with Jupiter, which reached what we call ...

The culprit was probably Jupiter's incredibly intense radiation belts. There's some good news and just-okay news about NASA's mighty little spacecraft Juno, which has been orbiting Jupiter since 2016.

Jupiter’s moon Europa is the subject of much speculation about extraterrestrial life, which could exist in the ocean buried beneath the body’s icy surface. Now researchers suggest that a small ...

A photo of Jupiter taken by NASA's Juno spacecraft in September 2023. NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/MSSS, image processing by Tanya Oleksuik The planet Jupiter has no solid ...