JUPITER

The discovery could play a critical part in supporting NASA’s Europa Clipper mission which will explore the possibility of life on the distant icy moon.

Jupiter’s moon Ganymede, the largest planetary satellite in the solar system, was studied by NASA’s Galileo spacecraft between 1996 and 2000. It is the only known moon with a magnetosphere.

The planet sits some 407 light years away from us and takes less than a couple of days to complete one full orbit around its host star.

NASA scientists released an animation Wednesday that uses infrared data from Juno, and shows a close three-dimensional view of Jupiter’s north pole and the region’s nine cyclones.

Jupiter’s Great Red Spot has been steadily contracting for over a century and could also completely disappear.

Brazilian researchers studied bacteria deep inside a South African gold mine, a site they called an “analogous terrestrial context” for Jupiter’s icy moon, Europa.

NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope is tracking a storm on Neptune as the vortex shrinks.

NASA plans to send an autonomous submarine to Saturn’s largest moon Titan to study the liquid methane oceans on its surface.

Since the NASA spacecraft entered an orbit around Jupiter in July 2016, Juno has sent back several breathtaking photographs of the largest planet in the solar system.

Jupiter has the biggest storms in the solar system, and NASA got an eyeful in a recent photo from the Juno spacecraft.

Watch NASA announce the finalists for the next New Frontiers mission today. Who are the teams in contention and what do they want NASA to study next?

Much like Earth, Jupiter also has an equatorial jet stream that reverses course at fixed periods. A NASA-led team has found the likely cause behind the reversal phenomenon.

Researchers observed how gargantuan storms disrupted atmospheric patterns and found several parallels to similar phenomena on Earth and Jupiter.

NASA revealed new information about Jupiter and its Giant Red Spot Monday that the Juno spacecraft collected during flybys of the planet.

Jupiter’s moon Europa is covered in ice, but that crusty exterior might move around and deliver food to aliens living in the ocean below.

NASA fired up some old thrusters on the back of the Voyager 1 space probe for the first time in 1980. Despite a 37 year gap between uses, the thrusters work perfectly.

The Juno craft has been orbiting Jupiter for more than a year now and it's taken some incredible photos of the giant.

A new study says the biggest planet in the solar system is responsible for almost all the water — whether liquid, solid or gas — in it.

The programs were chosen from a pool of proposals accepted by Space Telescope Science Institute’s call for early release science proposals, and includes examining Jupiter and its moons.

Venus and Jupiter will appear on track to collide Monday morning.

A planetary scientist has come up with a new model for how gas giant planets form, and it could give us insight into the rest of our solar system and universe.