53 results for "Juno"

NASA's Juno spacecraft, part of the Juno mission launched in 2011, has captured groundbreaking images of a significant volcanic feature on Jupiter's moon Io, known for its extreme geological activity....

NASA’s Juno spacecraft, which has been orbiting Jupiter since 2016, continues to provide unprecedented insights into the gas giant’s atmosphere. During its 61st close flyby on May 12, 2024, Juno...

NASA's Juno spacecraft, initially tasked with studying Jupiter, has revealed fascinating insights into the volcanic activity on the gas giant's moon, Io. Through its Jovian Infrared Auroral Mapper (JIRAM) instrument,...

NASA's Juno spacecraft has captured remarkable images of Jupiter’s moon Europa, revealing potential plume activity and intriguing geological features that suggest dynamic processes beneath the icy surface. Europa, one of...

On May 15, 2024, NASA's Juno spacecraft captured intriguing images of a mysterious object near Jupiter's Great Red Spot. This phenomenon, observed in Juno's latest flyby, adds to the growing...

NASA's Juno spacecraft, which has been orbiting Jupiter since 2016, has recently provided a rare glimpse of Amalthea, the fifth moon of Jupiter, as it transits the iconic Great Red...

Posted on Oct 21, 2022 in Astrobiology, Astronomy, Astrophysics, Cosmology, Extraterrestrial Life, James Webb Space Telescope, Multiverse, quantum physics, Science, Space News, Technology, Universe Today’s stories include NASA’s Webb Uncovers...

Posted on Aug 6, 2020 in Astronomy, Science Ever since NASA’s Voyager 1 spacecraft flew past Jupiter in March, 1979, scientists have wondered about the origin of Jupiter’s lightning, which...

Posted on Feb 18, 2020 in Astronomy, Science “Just when we think we have things figured out, Jupiter reminds us how much we still have to learn,” said Scott Bolton,...

Posted on Dec 14, 2019 in Astronomy, Science, Space “The combination of creativity and analytical thinking has once again paid off big time for NASA,” said Scott Bolton, Juno principal...

Posted on Oct 3, 2019 in Astronomy, Science, Space “With the success of this burn, we are on track to jump the shadow on Nov. 3,” said Scott Bolton, Juno’s...

Posted on Jan 2, 2019 in Astronomy, Science “We knew we were breaking new ground with a multi-spectral campaign to view Io’s polar region, but no one expected we would...

Posted on Jun 7, 2018 in Astronomy, Astrophysics, Science, Solar System “Our unique orbit allows our spacecraft to fly closer to Jupiter than any other spacecraft in history, so the...

Posted on Jun 6, 2018 in Astronomy, NASA, Science, Solar System Scientists have long known that Jupiter is a stormy place. But since NASA’s recently extended Juno probe reached the...

A recent study has uncovered that a colossal asteroid impact, occurring approximately 4 billion years ago, dramatically altered the rotational axis of Ganymede, the largest moon in our solar system....

Jupiter's Great Red Spot (GRS), the largest storm in the solar system, has been shrinking over the past century. Recent studies have provided new insights into why this iconic feature...

Recent studies have provided new insights into the age and origin of Jupiter's Great Red Spot (GRS), one of the most iconic features in our solar system. This massive storm,...

New research led by Lia Siegelman, a physical oceanographer at UC San Diego's Scripps Institution of Oceanography, reveals that the immense cyclones at Jupiter's polar regions are driven by atmospheric...

Posted on Sep 30, 2022 in Science, Science News, Space News Today’s stories include The last planet you’d want to live on to Stunning new Europa pictures beamed home by...

Posted on Sep 1, 2022 in Astrobiology, Astronomy, Astrophysics, Extraterrestrial Life, James Webb Space Telescope, quantum physics, Science, Science News, Space News, Universe Today’s stories from our amazing Universe include...

Another big week for “The Galaxy Report” with insights into our Solar System’s mysterious magnetic fields to  the first planet found to be orbing three stars to physicist Leonard Susskind,...

Posted on Aug 5, 2021 in Astronomy, Science In 2017, NASA’s Juno spacecraft spotted electrons being fired down into Jupiter’s atmosphere at up to an enormous 400,000 volts, giving rise...

Posted on Jul 13, 2021 in Astronomy, Science, Solar System “We have seen Jupiter producing X-ray aurora for four decades, but we didn’t know how this happened. We only knew...

Posted on Jul 28, 2021 in Astronomy, Science, Solar System Scientists using new and archival data from NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope have uncovered for the first time evidence of water...

Posted on Dec 11, 2020 in Astronomy, Science “Giant planets have deep atmospheres without a solid or liquid base like Earth,” said Scott Bolton, the visionary and principal investigator for...

Posted on Dec 20, 2020 in Science Tomorrow, Monday, December 21, Jupiter and Saturn will align in a “great conjunction,” appearing as close and as visible to be able to...

Posted on Oct 13, 2020 in Astronomy, Exoplanets, Solar System, Space “Historically, our assumption has been that the region around Jupiter is fairly empty, cleaned out by the giant planet’s...

Posted on Sep 24, 2020 in Astronomy, Science “If you went below the cloud tops, you would probably find liquid water rain drops, hail, and snow,” says Andy Ingersoll, Caltech...

Posted on Sep 8, 2020 in Astronomy, Extraterrestrial Life, NASA, Science Ever since Voyager 1 spacecraft flew past Jupiter in March, 1979 (where a day lasts 10 hours), NASA scientists...

Posted on Sep 18, 2020 in Astronomy, NASA, Science The famed astrophysicist, Lord Martin Rees, suggests that gas giant Jupiter’s dense, terrifying atmosphere –with its constant storms with thunderheads reaching...

Posted on Aug 17, 2020 in Astrobiology, Astronomy, Science, Space “Mirror of the Milky Way” –Puzzling Galaxy Found at Dawn of the Universe Mysteries of the Ice Giants –“Totally Weird...

Posted on Aug 10, 2020 in Astronomy, Science, Space, Universe “Hall of Mirrors” –Orange Glow Around M87’s Colossal Black Hole Unveils History of Observable Universe “Lighting Up Jupiter’s Dark Side...

Posted on May 9, 2020 in Astronomy, Science, Solar System Imagine living on a planet with constant storms with thunderheads reaching 40 miles from base to top — five times...

Many scientists believe that it is, suggests Paul Davies, theoretical physicist at Arizona State University and director of the Beyond Center, in The Demon in the Machine. Davies suggests that the...

“It’s a shame we don’t have it naturally here on earth, but on Jupiter, there are oceans of metallic hydrogen. We want to find out how these oceans give rise...

Posted on May 20, 2019 “It is incredible that one narrow magnetic hot spot, the Great Blue Spot, could be responsible for almost all of Jupiter’s variation, but the numbers...

Posted on Apr 9, 2019 in Astronomy, Exoplanets, Science “We succeeded in obtaining pretty solid evidence of the existence of a giant exoplanet with a mass almost 13 times that...

Posted on Mar 22, 2019 in Astronomy, Science As storms go, Jupiter’s colossal Great Red Spot, 16,000 kilometers wide and raging for 350 years, is the solar system’s heavyweight. According...

Posted on Nov 19, 2021 in Astronomy, Science Radio signals from two NASA probes, Cassini at Saturn (above) and Juno at Jupiter, allowed researchers to pierce the swirling clouds that...

Posted on Dec 19, 2018 “Every six or seven years, we found examples of observations when the equatorial clouds had vanished completely, allowing us to see deeper into Jupiter’s churning...

Posted on Oct 23, 2018 in Astronomy, Science, Solar System, Technology Massive structures of moving air that appear like waves in Jupiter’s atmosphere were first detected by NASA’s Voyager missions...

Posted on Aug 27, 2018 “How could it have taken two million years for Jupiter to grow from 20 to 50 Earth masses?” asked Julia Venturini at the University of...

“The moons that orbit Jupiter are mostly water ice, so the whole neighborhood has plenty of water,” said Gordon L. Bjoraker, an astrophysicist at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center. “Why...

“There are no continents and mountains below Jupiter’s atmosphere to obstruct the path of the jet streams,” said Jeffrey Parker from Livermore National Laboratory. Scientists from Australia and the United...

Posted on Jul 24, 2018 in Astrobiology, Astronomy, Science, Technology Metallic hydrogen is one of the rarest materials on Earth, yet more than 80 percent of planets–including Jupiter, Saturn, and...

Posted on Jul 15, 2018 in Astronomy, Discovery, NASA, Science, Solar System In February 2001 an eruption from the Surt volcano on the Jupiter-facing hemisphere of Io, the volcanic epi-center...

New images from NASA’s Juno spacecraft show an unusual “footprint” of Jupiter’s moons on their parent planet’s aurorae. The data reveal that, rather than casting one “shadow” in Jupiter’s aurorae,...

“Our solution is pretty simple,” says Louis Moresi, from the University of Melbourne. “During the transition to plate-tectonics, the Earth goes through this complete overturn. It has stored up a...

Posted on Mar 7, 2018 in Discoveries, NASA, Solar System Jupiter was likely the first planet to take shape in our solar system. It may have spent millions and millions...

Posted on Mar 10, 2018 in Discovery, NASA, Solar System “These astonishing science results are yet another example of Jupiter’s curve balls, and a testimony to the value of exploring...