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A spectacular image taken by NASA's Juno probe this past weekend shows Jupiter's moon Io with twin eruptions on the surface.

NASA Spacecraft Swoops So Close to Io That It Can See Volcanic Eruptions

By Sharon Adarlo

NASA's Juno spacecraft performed its closest every flyby of Io, capturing stunning photos of the ever-shifting surface of this volcanic world.

NASA Spacecraft Zooms Close to Jupiter’s Brutal Moon, Snaps Amazing Photos

By Frank Landymore

A video captured by an amateur astronomer in Japan shows a super-bright comet, also known as a bolide, exploding as it collides with Jupiter.

Object Crashes Into Jupiter, Explodes

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Thanks to NASA's space probe Juno, astronomers finally have confirmation of salt and organic compounds in Ganymede, Jupiter's largest moon.

NASA Says It’s Spotted Organic Compounds on Jupiter’s Largest Moon

By Frank Landymore

NASA attempted to spit facts about humans' inability to fly to Jupiter — and then was forced to apologize.

NASA Apologies for Saying Your Broke A** Will Never Go to Jupiter

By Noor Al-Sibai

Even the ghouls on Jupiter are out for Halloween! The Juno spacescraft captured a spooky image of a grimacing "face" in Jupiter's clouds.

Behold This Scary Face in the Clouds of Jupiter

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

NASA's Juno satellite captured new images of Jupiter's moon, Io, which has a fiery surface due to its many volcanoes.

NASA Spacecraft Snaps Beautiful Photo of Jupiter’s Volcano-Dotted Moon

By Sharon Adarlo

Ever dreamed of sending a raunchy missive into outer space on the side of a NASA spacecraft? If the answer's yes, we have good news.

If You Want to Make NASA Carve Something Rude Into a Spacecraft Headed to Jupiter, Now’s Your Chance

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

The European Space Agency has successfully launched an exciting new deep space mission called JUICE to visit Jupiter's icy moons.

Scientists Launch JUICE Mission to Distant Worlds

By Victor Tangermann

Jupiter's Galilean moons also having fascinating auroras like the Northern lights on Earth, but can be even more colorful and powerful.

Astronomers Spot Stunning Auroras On Jupiter’s Moons

By Frank Landymore

NASA has released a stunning infrared image of Jupiter's moon Io, which shows the celestial body's volcanically-active surface.

NASA Spacecraft Snaps Incredible Image of Volcano-Covered Moon

By Victor Tangermann

A Wave of Incredible Heat Ripped Through Jupiter

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A Wave of Incredible Heat Ripped Through Jupiter

By Victor Tangermann

Jupiter's moons all vary considerably in size, as demonstrated in an amazing new video shared by the account MetaBallStudios on YouTube.

Awesome Video Shows Jupiter’s Moons in Comparison to NYC

By Victor Tangermann

Citizen scientist Judy Schmidt of Modesto, California, collaborated with NASA to create a new image of Jupiter — and it's stunning.

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James Webb Captures Jupiter in Glorious Infrared

By Lonnie Lee Hood

Jupiter's massive moons may be the reason why the gas giant never formed rings like its neighbor Saturn, according to new research.

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Jupiter’s Moons Accused of Sucking Up the Planet’s Rings

By Frank Landymore

NASA has released stunning new images of Jupiter and its moon Europa, taken by its groundbreaking new James Webb Space Telescope.

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James Webb Picture of Jupiter So Crisp You Can See Its Moon Europa

By Victor Tangermann

The James Webb Space Telescope secretly released an infrared photo of Jupiter during its historic drop of images yesterday.

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The Webb Telescope Just Quietly Released a Picture of Jupiter

By Noor Al-Sibai

A new study suggests that Jupiter may be our solar system's hungriest hippo as it formed by eating a bunch of baby planets.

Voracious Jupiter Ate a Bunch of Baby Planets, Scientists Say

By Noor Al-Sibai

In a new study published in the journal Nature Communications, scientists found that Europa's icy shell could be more porous than previously thought.

Jupiter’s Icy Moon May Be Way More Habitable Than We Thought

By Victor Tangermann

One of its 13 early targets is Jupiter, a gas giant that's far closer to us than most of its other targets.

Science & Energy

The James Webb Space Telescope Is Going to Stare Straight Into Jupiter

By Victor Tangermann

Using the NASA’s NuSTAR space observatory, scientists observed a blast of high-frequency X-rays emanating from Jupiter.

NASA Spots High Energy X-Rays Coming from Jupiter

By Victor Tangermann

A meme has been circulating since 2021 trying to disprove the existence of gas planets like Jupiter — but NASA and others disproved the conspiracy.

Nitwits Claim Wrongly to Have Disproved the Existence of Jupiter

By Lonnie Lee Hood

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has discovered that the average wind speeds of Jupiter's Great Red Spot storm are starting to steadily increase over time.

Science & Energy

Jupiter’s Great Red Spot Is Changing, NASA Says

By Victor Tangermann

Astronomers observing Jupiter got a surprise on Monday when a large unknown object smashed into the planet’s surface causing a "bright flash of light."

Something Big Appears to Have Just Smashed Into Jupiter

By Tony Ho Tran

Watch the Rare “Triple Transit” From Jupiter’s Moons

Watch the Rare “Triple Transit” From Jupiter’s Moons

By Tony Ho Tran

Using data from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, scientists found the first ever evidence of water vapor in the atmosphere of Jupiter's moon Ganymede.

NASA’s Hubble Finds Evidence of Water Vapor on One of Jupiter’s Moons

By Victor Tangermann

Amateur astronomer Kai Ly pored over years of data to find and confirm a previously-undiscovered moon that's orbiting around Jupiter.

Jupiter Officially Has Yet Another Moon

By Dan Robitzski

NASA' Juno spacecraft took two stunning images of Jupiter's largest moon Ganymede during a June 7 flyby.

NASA Spacecraft Takes Gorgeous Pictures of Jupiter’s Largest Moon

By Victor Tangermann

Russia's space agency Roscosmos has announced that it is planning to send a nuclear-powered "space tug" capable of transporting heavy cargo in deep space, all the way to Jupiter in 2030.

Russia Wants to Send a Nuclear-Powered “Space Tug” to Jupiter

By Victor Tangermann

NASA's Juno spacecraft reportedly detected an FM radio signal coming from the Jovian moon Ganymede, local Utah news station KTVX reports.

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NASA Reportedly Detects Signal Coming From One of Jupiter’s Moons

By Victor Tangermann

A team of NASA scientists has spotted strange flashes known as "transient luminous events" (TLEs) in the upper atmosphere of Jupiter.

NASA Detects Bright Flashes of Light on Jupiter

By Victor Tangermann

According to new research, the massive heft of Jupiter may have disturbed Venus's orbit to the point where it was no longer capable of hosting life.

Science & Energy

Research: Jupiter Likely Turned Venus Into an Uninhabitable Hellhole

By Victor Tangermann

Last month, NASA's Hubble Space Telescope took a gorgeous new close-up image of Jupiter some 406 million miles from Earth, with Europa off to the left.

Science & Energy

Hubble Catches Massive New Storm Brewing on Jupiter

By Victor Tangermann

A new study outlines a new discovery of a surprisingly young hot Jupiter class exoplanet called HIP 67522 b, some 490 light-years from Earth.

Science & Energy

This Super Young Jupiter-Sized ‘Hot Planet’ is Puzzling Astronomers

By Victor Tangermann

A new study led by the ESA found new evidence that Jupiter's moon Europa was indeed spouting plumes of water into space during a Galileo flyby.

Scientists Find New Evidence Europa Is Shooting Water Into Space

By Victor Tangermann

A beautiful new infrared image of Jupiter makes the entire gassy planet look like it's turned into a giant, swirling fireball.

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Amazing Image of Jupiter Looks Like It’s Burning

By Dan Robitzski

NASA's Juno spacecraft took this dramatic image of Jupiter's "tumultous northern regions" during a close flyby on February 17, 2020.

Glorious NASA Photo Shows “Thin Bands” Running Across Jupiter

By Victor Tangermann

NASA recently spotted yet another gigantic storm on Jupiter's south pole, bringing the total count up to seven swirling vortices.

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Check Out This Hypnotic Array of Colossal Storms on Jupiter

By Dan Robitzski

Signs that Jupiter's Great Red Spot is on its deathbed actually represent normal activity for the storm, scientists now say.

Science & Energy

Scientists: Jupiter’s Great Red Spot Isn’t Dying After All

By Kristin Houser

A team out of NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center has confirmed traces of water vapor being released above Jupiter's moon Europa.

Science & Energy

Scientists Confirm Water Vapor Above the Surface of Europa

By Victor Tangermann

Scientists: This Massive Gas Planet Should Not Exist

Science & Energy

Scientists: This Massive Gas Planet Should Not Exist

By Victor Tangermann

While performing a close flyby of Jupiter, NASA's Juno spacecraft captured several stunning images of a solar eclipse on the gas giant.

Juno Captures Stunning Images of a Solar Eclipse on Jupiter

By Kristin Houser

NASA has announced it's completing the final designs and planning for constructing and testing a spacecraft that will visit Jupiter's icy moon Europa.

Science & Energy

NASA is Sending a Probe to Jupiter’s Icy Moon to Look for Life

By Victor Tangermann

Scientists suggest that Jupiter may have collided with and absorbed a giant protoplanet when the solar system was forming some 4.5 billion years ago.

Science & Energy

Jupiter May Have Absorbed a Smaller Planet

By Dan Robitzski

Jupiter got hit by something so big on Wednesday that a photographer was able to capture the impact using a telescope in his backyard.

Science & Energy

Something Enormous Just Smashed Into Jupiter

By Kristin Houser

NASA scientists report that Jupiter's Great Red Spot is shrinking and that it could totally dissipate within the next 20 years.

Jupiter’s Great Red Spot Is Dying

By Dan Robitzski

New calculations suggest that Jupiter's moons could have active tidal waves, much like those here on Earth, under their thick icy shells.

The Moons of Jupiter and Saturn Could Have Earth-Like Tidal Waves

By Jon Christian

CI Tau is a small star. But new research shows that its planets are absolute units, dwarfing the largest planets in our own system by an enormous margin.

These New Planets Are Massive. So Is What They Could Teach Us.

By Jon Christian

Based on data from two ground-based telescopes, researchers believe there's water on Jupiter, perhaps far more than on Earth.

Science & Energy

There’s Water in Jupiter’s Atmosphere

By Kristin Houser

A Beautiful, 20-Year Old “New” Discovery: Jupiter Moon’s Massive Liquid Plumes

A Beautiful, 20-Year Old “New” Discovery: Jupiter Moon’s Massive Liquid Plumes

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We Now Know What Lies Beneath Jupiter’s Clouds

By Chelsea Gohd

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Life on Europa Could Survive off Nuclear Energy, Research Finds

By Chelsea Gohd

Extreme Conditions of Alien Worlds Damage Spacecraft Irreparably

Extreme Conditions of Alien Worlds Damage Spacecraft Irreparably

By Chelsea Gohd

NASA’s Juno Reported Back, and Things Are Getting Weird

NASA’s Juno Reported Back, and Things Are Getting Weird

NASA Is Sending a Lander to Discover Whether Life Exists on Europa

NASA Is Sending a Lander to Discover Whether Life Exists on Europa

By Kathleen Riley

Plumes on Europa Might Confirm Suspicions of Water Beneath Its Icy Crust

Plumes on Europa Might Confirm Suspicions of Water Beneath Its Icy Crust

NASA’s Juno Releases Incredible First-Ever Images of Jupiter’s North Pole

NASA’s Juno Releases Incredible First-Ever Images of Jupiter’s North Pole

By Jelor Gallego

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Yesterday, NASA’s Juno Spacecraft Soared Over Jupiter In Its First-Ever Flyby

By Jasmine Solana

Scientists Observe the Collapse of Io’s Atmosphere

Scientists Observe the Collapse of Io’s Atmosphere

By Cecille De Jesus

Juno Spacecraft Records Jupiter’s “Roar” as it Enters the Planet’s Magnetic Field

Juno Spacecraft Records Jupiter’s “Roar” as it Enters the Planet’s Magnetic Field

By Arra Dianne Hifarva

NASA’s Juno Spacecraft to Arrive at Jupiter Today

NASA’s Juno Spacecraft to Arrive at Jupiter Today

By Sarah Marquart

NASA’s Juno Spacecraft Will Reach Jupiter on July 4th

NASA’s Juno Spacecraft Will Reach Jupiter on July 4th

By Jelor Gallego

Searching for Life: NASA Evidence Shows Europa is Far More Earth-Like Than Thought

Searching for Life: NASA Evidence Shows Europa is Far More Earth-Like Than Thought

By Todd Jaquith

An Object Just Collided With Jupiter and Astronomers Caught it on Video

An Object Just Collided With Jupiter and Astronomers Caught it on Video

By Sarah Marquart