Curious Kids is a series for children of all ages. If you have a question you’d like an expert to answer, send it to [email protected]. Why does Jupiter look like it has a surface – ...

JunoCam, the visible light imager aboard NASA’s Juno, captured this enhanced-color view of Jupiter’s northern high latitudes from an altitude of about 36,000 miles (58,000 kilometers) above the giant ...

NASA’s Juno spacecrafthas once again delivered breathtaking images of Jupiter, capturing the giant planet’s swirling storms and cloud bands in extraordinary detail. These latest photos, taken during ...

Stunning patterns in Jupiter’s atmosphere have been replicated more accurately than ever before in the lab – using a rotating tub filled with water. Michael Le Bars at Aix-Marseille University in ...

To test this idea, the new study looks at an exoplanet known as VHS 1256b. It has a mass of around 20 Jupiters and is one of ...

Europa, one of Jupiter’s icy moons, shows a bizarre spider-like scar on its surface. Scientists now explain the possible ...

New secrets about Jupiter's volcanically volatile moon Io have been revealed by NASA's Juno probe. Io, Jupiter's third-largest moon, is covered in lakes made of lava, according to a new paper in the ...

It is the oldest (and largest) known vortex in the solar system. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. In 1665, Italian astronomer ...

If there's no magma ocean, where does the 'melt' come from that emerges from the volcanoes as lava? When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it ...

A view of Jupiter's moon Io captured by NASA's Juno spacecraft on December 30, 2023. NASA / SWRI / MSSS / Jason Perry under CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 DEED On Saturday, NASA’s Juno spacecraft traveled closer to ...

A photo of Jupiter taken by NASA's Juno spacecraft in September 2023. NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/MSSS, image processing by Tanya Oleksuik The planet Jupiter has no solid ...