Night-side flashes on Jupiter are giving planetary scientists a rare look at how this giant world behaves when it turns away from the Sun. By tracking these elusive lights, a NASA probe is turning ...

New research data using NASA’s Juno spacecraft shows Jupiter is slightly smaller and flatter than decades-old estimates.

Jupiter’s nights are anything but dark. Recent images from a fleet of NASA spacecraft and the James Webb Space Telescope reveal a giant world whose unlit hemisphere crackles with lightning, glows with ...

It's a world home to gigantic storms bigger than Australia, 100-mph winds pummeling its northern reaches and a rocky moon riddled with lava-spewing volcanoes. Welcome to Jupiter. NASA scientists have ...

These observations of Jupiter’s auroras were captured with NASA's James Webb Space Telescope’s NIRCam (Near-Infrared Camera) on Dec. 25, 2023. NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has revealed enormous ...

NASA's Juno spacecraft has provided new insight into Jupiter and its volcanic moon, Io. Credit: NASA / JPL-Caltech / SwRI / MSSS / Alain Mirón Velázquez At Jupiter's north pole, powerful storms the ...

The Juno spacecraft was launched towards Jupiter in August of 2011 as part of the New Frontiers series of spacecraft, on what would originally have been a 7-year mission, including a nearly 5 year ...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Jupiter takes center stage with the arrival next week of a NASA spacecraft built to peek through its thick, swirling clouds and map the planet from the inside out. The solar-powered ...

A mission to Jupiter launched over a decade ago is about to complete its work with a fiery plunge into the planet’s depths sometime this month. NASA’s Juno orbiter spacecraft reached Jupiter in 2016, ...

New data from the orbiter has unveiled some of the treacherous conditions of not only Jupiter, but its moon Io, the most volcanic body in the solar system. The findings, which come after Juno has ...