This image from NASA’s Juno spacecraft captures several storms in Jupiter’s southern hemisphere (Figure A). Titanic blasts created by the impacts of comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 fragments left Jupiter with ...

To get somewhere in outer space, you can’t exactly drive in a straight line. Orbits are tricky things, and sending a probe to ...

Have you ever wondered what it would look like drifting through the vastness of space? The Cassini Probe does, looking at Lo ...

Jupiter's Great Red Spot Is Not the Same One Cassini Observed in 1600s June 19, 2024 — Jupiter's iconic Great Red Spot has persisted for at least 190 years and is likely a different spot from ...

Curiously, earlier astronomers, like Giovanni Domenico Cassini in 1665, also observed a colossal red storm at the same latitude on Jupiter — raising the possibility that they're actually the ...

The hellish surface of a moon of Jupiter known as Io is riddled with hundreds of lava-spewing volcanoes that make the world ...

Indeed, astronomers lost track of Cassini’s spot after 1713, and it wasn’t until 1831 that observations of a storm on Jupiter resurfaced. According to the new research, led by Agustín ...

Saturn and Jupiter. Jupiter comes out as a beacon in the southwest and sets in the west a few hours later. Trailing it is Spica, the ...

Björn Jónsson stitched together over 100 images taken on two different missions (Cassini and Juno) to create a full photographic map of Jupiter. "It's special because this is the first map that ...

Illustrations by the 17th-century astronomer Cassini (a-c), compared with Jupiter's current Great Red Spot as captured by Eric Sussenbach in 2023. Disclaimer: AAAS and EurekAlert! are not ...

In September Cassini will plunge into Saturn, a final journey that will end with the spacecraft burning up like a meteor. Above Saturn and Jupiter, brilliant Arcturus anchors the kite-shaped ...