To measure the gravity of Jupiter one needs to track how a test mass (the Juno spacecraft in our case) falls in the gravity field of the planet with respect to another point in space, such as the ...

Juno will continue keeping an eye on Jupiter until its mission comes to an end with a fiery crash into the planet in 2018. Miriam Kramer worked as a staff writer for Space.com for about 2.5 years ...

The second stage of SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket captured an amazing view of Earth during the launch of the Intelsat 40e ...

Explore the amazing discovery of Jupiter’s swirling dark vortices and their connection to its powerful magnetic field and ...

Dec. 9, 2024 — A NASA Hubble Space Telescope observation program called OPAL (Outer Planet Atmospheres Legacy) obtains long-term baseline observations of Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune in ...

Astrophysicists recently discovered that Jupiter's Great Red Spot is extremely hot. This new discovery could help explain a mystery that's plagued scientists for decades. Read more about the ...

Jovian storms can rework the whole chemical makeup of Jupiter's deep atmosphere by picking up ammonia from and dropping it somewhere else. It would appear that a really big storm on Jupiter can ...

A massive solar windstorm in 2017 compressed Jupiter's magnetosphere "like a giant squash ball," a new study reports. The discovery stemmed from an unusual temperature pattern scientists observed ...

A massive solar windstorm in 2017 compressed Jupiter's magnetosphere "like a giant ... toward the equator from the poles. Breaking space news, the latest updates on rocket launches, skywatching ...