Juno’s latest discoveries have pulled back the veil on Jupiter’s harsh atmosphere and the fiery volcanic world of Io. The spacecraft detected warm lava flows beneath Io’s crust and uncovered how heat ...

Space exploration missions have revealed that polar vortices aren’t uncommon beyond Earth. They’ve been observed throughout ...

It's the second spacecraft in history to do so, and its orbit is taking it over Jupiter's north and south pole. During its latest pass over Jupiter's south pole, Juno snapped a series of images ...

NASA scientists have sought to understand planet Jupiter, the gas giant whose mass is more than the rest of the planets in ...

When NASA's Juno spacecraft first flew by Jupiter on August 27 ... But the pinwheel-shaped spacecraft also swung by the south pole of the largest planet in the solar system.

What’s more, data from Juno’s Io flybys has revealed the subsurface temperature profile of Io, the innermost of the four ...

Jupiter and Saturn have always been some of ... with eight cyclones circling a central cyclone at the north pole. At the south pole, five cyclones were doing the same thing.

The James Webb Space Telescope has investigated an exoplanet that’s super cool — literally. The huge planet, which is six times the mass of Jupiter, is the coldest exoplanet ever detected, with an ...

A new study shows that these dark UV ovals are common, appearing at the south pole ... Liftoff! NASA's Europa Clipper Sails Toward Ocean Moon of Jupiter Oct. 14, 2024 — NASA's Europa Clipper has ...

Jupiter Is Massive and Dominates Our Solar ... eight persistent cyclones at the planet's north pole and five at its south pole. The Great Red Spot is trapped between two of these jet streams.