Scientists on NASA’s Juno mission have observed massive amounts of energy swirling over Jupiter’s polar regions that contribute to the giant planet’s powerful aurora – only not in ways the researchers ...

For 40 years, Jupiter's intense aurora polaris, also known as northern and southern lights, have puzzled astronomers around the world. Now, scientists have finally uncovered the mystery behind the gas ...

For a planet so far from the sun, its upper atmosphere is a boiling 400 degrees Celsius (750 Fahrenheit). That's about the same as Earth's upper atmosphere. "Jupiter is five times farther from the sun ...

This week European and American researchers seize a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to gather simultaneous observations from the NASA/ESA Cassini/Huygens space mission and the NASA/ESA Hubble Space ...

The 40-year-old mystery of how Jupiter produces a spectacular burst of X-rays every few minutes has been solved in a new study. University College London (UCL) experts studied data from NASA's Juno ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. New Hubble photos show auroras – flares of ultraviolet light – streaming from the planet Jupiter.

Last year might have belonged to Pluto, but by all accounts this is going to be the year of Jupiter. That's because the Juno spacecraft is completing its nearly five-year journey to reach the giant ...

(CNN) -- An electric-blue aurora glows in this Hubble Space Telescope image of the atmosphere of Jupiter, released this week as the orbiting telescope and deep space probes prepare for the most ...

Jupiter's auroras — the lights that dance around its poles — are the most distinct in our solar system and over a thousand times brighter than Earth's aurora. Now, a new study confirms that these ...

This aurora is hundreds of times more energetic than Earth's northern lights. — -- Scientists have unveiled images of a brilliant X-ray aurora on Jupiter triggered by a massive solar storm ...

An international research team has measured the system of currents that generates Jupiter's aurora. The scientists found out that sulphur dioxide gas from the gas giant's Moon Io is the cause of the ...