Super Jupiters can grow like planets after all
There’s a comforting idea in planetary science. That no matter how strange a distant world looks, its beginnings…
For Jupiter, ‘Textbooks Will Need to Be Updated’
Jupiter hasn’t shrunk, but our best measurement of it just did. Using fresh data from NASA’s Juno…
Jupiter smaller than science dictated, NASA, Weizmann find
The planet Jupiter is smaller and flatter than astrophysicists have believed for over 50 years, the Weizmann Institute…
Jupiter is Smaller and More ‘Squashed’ than Previously Believed, New Juno Data Reveal
Using high-precision radio-occultation measurements from NASA’s Juno mission and incorporating the effects of zonal winds, planetary scientists derived…
Ammonia-Bearing Compounds Detected on Europa for First Time
A new analysis of archival data from the Near Infrared Mapping Spectrometer (NIMS) on board NASA’s Galileo spacecraft…
NASA Juno data reveals Europa has a surprisingly thick icy crust
Artist’s concept of Europa’s ice shell. (Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech) Europa has always been the Solar System’s most tantalizing “maybe.”…
NASA Detects Most Powerful Eruption Ever on Jupiter’s Volcanic Moon Io
Jupiter’s moon Io is covered in hundreds of volcanoes, which spew fountains of lava that constantly refill impact…
The Night Sky This Week
Topline This week features a sky where winter’s brightest stars strain to be seen as the moon grows…
New Model Suggests How Nutrients Could Penetrate Europa’s Ice Shell to Feed Its Hidden Ocean
A duo of geophysicists from Washington State University and Virginia Tech has uncovered a plausible pathway for nutrient…
Look up this week for Jupiter :: WRAL.com
Jupiter reaches opposition, the point in its orbit where the planet is opposite the sun in our sky.…
Celestial citrus! Scientists are baffled by a LEMON-shaped planet that ‘defies explanation’
Scientists have been baffled by a bizarre lemon–shaped planet that ‘defies explanation’. The Jupiter–size planet was discovered by…
Europa’s Spider-Like Feature is Analogous to Earth’s Lake Stars, Planetary Researchers Say
Jupiter’s icy moon Europa is an ocean world that is a prime candidate in the search for potential…