Jupiter, roughly 562 million miles from Earth today, has nearly 100 moons. But Batygin and his collaborator Fred Adams' ...

In May 2024, powerful solar activity triggered jaw-dropping northern lights much farther south than usual, turning the sky ...

Stunning new images of Jupiter show its vast swirling clouds in striking detail. NASA’s Juno spacecraft completed its 72nd close flyby of the planet on 7 May, coming within thousands of kilometres of ...

Close-ups of Jupiter and its gorgeous cloud-tops star in the latest batch of images sent back from NASA’s Juno orbiter. Launched in 2011 and at Jupiter since 2016, Juno orbits the giant planet ...

The images show the planet's atmosphere, rings and moons. NASA on Monday released two new images of Jupiter from the James Webb Space Telescope that showcase the planet's features in detail.

Jupiter is not a solid planet like Earth. The vast majority of the giant planet is made of hydrogen gas mixed with a little helium. The surface that you see in pictures is only the upper layer of ...

In some of the new images, two of the planet's moons, Amalthea and Adrastea, sparkle in the gas giant's orbit, and Jupiter's faint rings glow like a halo. At the planet's North and South poles ...

Planet Jupiter, explained And when NASA's Juno spacecraft began orbiting Jupiter in 2016, it quickly started sending back breathtaking images. The stunning pictures revealed that the planet is ...

Related: Gas giants: Jovian planets of our solar system and beyond ... while Pioneer 11 provided data on the Great Red Spot and close-up pictures of Jupiter's polar regions. Voyagers 1 and 2 ...

One of the photos ... captured one of Jupiter's folded filamentary regions. These are chaotic-appearing, and mostly cyclonic storms that can be found in the planet's subpolar latitudes, according ...

The team's calculations indicate that young Jupiter had a radius nearly twice its current size, with a volume large enough to ...

A recent study found that Jupiter was once twice the size that it is now, making it big enough to swallow up 2,000 Earths.