This is Jupiter as you’ve never seen it before
The groundbreaking James Webb Space Telescope has produced an extraordinary image of Jupiter using its advanced infrared camera......»»
Launch of heavyweight commercial communications satellite reset for Friday night [Updated]
SpaceX will again launch a competitor's satellite, this time a 10-ton behemoth. Enlarge / SpaceX's Falcon Heavy rocket stands on Launch Complex 39A at NASA's Kennedy Space Center before the launch of the Jupiter 3 communications.....»»
Launch of heavyweight commercial communications satellite reset for Thursday night [Updated]
SpaceX will again launch a competitor's satellite, this time a 10-ton behemoth. Enlarge / SpaceX's Falcon Heavy rocket stands on Launch Complex 39A at NASA's Kennedy Space Center before the launch of the Jupiter 3 communications.....»»
Launch of heavyweight commercial communications satellite reset for Thursday night
SpaceX will again launch a competitor's satellite, this time a 10-ton behemoth. Enlarge / SpaceX's Falcon Heavy rocket stands on Launch Complex 39A at NASA's Kennedy Space Center before the launch of the Jupiter 3 communications.....»»
NASA"s Juno is getting ever closer to Jupiter"s moon Io
The spinning, solar-powered spacecraft will take another look of the fiery Jovian moon on July 30......»»
World’s heaviest commercial communications satellite will launch tonight
SpaceX will again launch a competitor's satellite, this time a 10-ton behemoth. Enlarge / SpaceX's Falcon Heavy rocket stands on Launch Complex 39A at NASA's Kennedy Space Center before the launch of the Jupiter 3 communications.....»»
New image reveals secrets of planet birth
A spectacular new image released today by the European Southern Observatory gives us clues about how planets as massive as Jupiter could form. Using ESO's Very Large Telescope (VLT) and the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), researc.....»»
How engineers on the ground fixed the Juice spacecraft’s stuck antenna
In April the Juice spacecraft launched to investigate the icy moons of Jupiter, but there was a problem: an antenna was stuck and wasn't deploying......»»
Solving the RIME deployment mystery on ESA"s Juice mission
When the RIME antenna on ESA's Juice mission failed to deploy a few days after launch, the engineering teams faced the mighty challenge of understanding the fault and rectifying it. At stake was a chance to see inside Jupiter's mysterious icy moons......»»
First ultraviolet data collected by European Space Agency"s JUICE mission
The Southwest Research Institute-led Ultraviolet Spectrograph (UVS) aboard ESA's Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer (JUICE) spacecraft has successfully completed its initial commissioning following the April 14 launch......»»
NASA’s skywatching tips for July feature stars called Regulus and Fomalhaut
Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, and stars feature in NASA's latest roundup of ideas on what to look out for in the night sky over the coming weeks......»»
Paper suggests there could be captured planets in the Oort cloud
Our solar system has had a chaotic past. Earth and the other planets are now in stable orbits, but while they were forming they experienced drastic location shifts. Jupiter was likely much closer to the sun than it is now, and its shift not only shif.....»»
Gorgeous images of Jupiter’s cloud tops snapped by Juno spacecraft
The Juno spacecraft made its 49th close flyby of Jupiter earlier this year, and NASA has shared stunning images taken as it whizzed by the planet's cloud tops......»»
Jupiter"s moon Europa may have had a slow evolution
Jupiter's moon, Europa, is slightly smaller than Earth's Moon and is one of the most promising places to search for alien life......»»
Astronomers observe giant tails of helium escaping Jupiter-like planet
A team of astronomers has used observations from the Hobby-Eberly Telescope (HET) at The University of Texas at Austin's McDonald Observatory to discover some of the longest tails of gas yet observed escaping a planet......»»
Astronomers discover a new "warm Jupiter" on an eccentric and misaligned orbit
Using NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), astronomers have discovered a new "warm Jupiter" exoplanet. The newfound alien world, designated TOI-1859 b, orbits its parent star on an eccentric and misaligned orbit. The finding is report.....»»
Soaring rhetoric: NASA mission will carry Poet Laureate Ada Limón"s words to Jupiter
A new work by U.S. Poet Laureate Ada Limón, written for an upcoming NASA mission to Jupiter's moon Europa, is a glance at outer space that returns back to Earth......»»
NASA’s June skywatching tips include Mars in the Beehive
NASA's skywatching tips for June include the spectacle of Mars among the Beehive Cluster, and Saturn and Jupiter rising with the crescent moon......»»
Juice spacecraft has overcome its stuck antenna issue and is ready for Jupiter
The European Space Agency's Juice spacecraft is now fully deployed and on its way to study the icy moons of Jupiter......»»
The case of the missing Jupiters: Gas giant planets are a no-show around small red stars
Astronomers have revealed that the smallest and most common kinds of stars in the universe, called red dwarfs, very rarely host big, Jupiter-like planets. This absence of Jupiter analogs could have major impacts on the development of Earth-like plane.....»»
Juice"s final deployments complete: Ready for study of Jupiter
Flight controllers at ESA's mission control center in Germany have been busy this week, working with instrument teams on the final deployments to prepare ESA's Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer (Juice) for exploring Jupiter......»»