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 ...

Scientists studying Jupiter’s moon Europa have zeroed in on a strange, spider-like feature etched into the moon’s icy shell, ...

Banded planet: Jupiter's wind bands extend deep below the Jovian surface. Precise measurements of Jupiter’s gravitational field by NASA’s Juno spacecraft have allowed scientists to make an important ...

The Juno spacecraft has been orbiting Jupiter since 2016 and it has already provided us with a wealth of information about the gas giant. Today, four Nature papers describe new observations about ...

Jupiter seen in high resolution thermal infrared via the Gemini Observatory's Lucky Imaging technique. Gemini Observatory / NOIRLab / NSF / AURA M.H. Wong (UC Berkeley) and team Astronomers have ...

The huge ocean sloshing beneath the icy shell of Jupiter's moon Europa likely makes its way to the surface in some places, suggesting astronomers may not need to drill down deep to investigate it, a ...

Although Europa is the fourth largest of Jupiter’s 95 moons, it’s the smallest of the Galilean moons – the largest being Ganymede. With an equatorial diameter of about 3,100 kilometres, Europa is ...

On Saturday (Jan. 10), for example, we will see three satellites on one side of Jupiter (going outward from the planet: Ganymede, Io and Europa ), while the fourth ( Callisto) remains all by itself on ...

Curious Kids is a series for children of all ages. If you have a question you’d like an expert to answer, send it to curiouskidsus@theconversation.com. Why does Jupiter look like it has a surface – ...

Curious Kids is a series for children of all ages. If you have a question you'd like an expert to answer, send it to ... . The planet Jupiter has no solid ground – no surface, like the grass or dirt ...